Formation of Hæmosiderin and its Relation to Ferritin

Autor: Phillip Sturgeon, Arne Shoden
Rok vydání: 1961
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Zdroj: Nature. 189:846-847
ISSN: 1476-4687
0028-0836
DOI: 10.1038/189846a0
Popis: SUPPORT for the hypothesis that the protein moiety of haemosiderin is the same as that of ferritin can be found in the literature1,2. Iron tetrad (or, more recently, ‘hexad’3,4) structures in a protein matrix characteristic of ferritin have been reported in electron photomicrographs of tissue sections variously interpreted as ferritin, haemosiderin, aggregates of ferritin, etc.3,5,6. It is not uncommon, therefore, to consider both ferritin and haemosiderin as being more or less identical. However, the results of our biochemical and histochemical work lead to opposite conclusions7,8.
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