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N E Le Brun1, M T Wilson, S C Andrews, J R Guest, P M Harrison, A J Thomson, G R Moore.
Abstract
The mechanism by which iron-storage proteins take up and oxidise iron(II) is not understood. We show by rapid-kinetic and EPR measurements that iron uptake, in vitro, by a bacterial iron-storage protein, bacterioferritin, involves at least three kinetically distinguishable phases: phase 1, the binding of Fe(II) ions, probably at a dimeric iron ferroxidase centre; phase 2, oxidation of the Fe(II) dimer and production of mononuclear Fe(III); and phase 3, iron core formation.Entities:
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Year: 1993 PMID: 8224163 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(93)80404-i
Source DB: PubMed Journal: FEBS Lett ISSN: 0014-5793 Impact factor: 4.124