title: Ferritin distribution and synthesis in sex-linked anemia.
abstract: The ferritin concentration of duodenum, liver, and spleen and the incorporation of L-leucine-3H into immunoprecipitated duodenal and liver ferritin was measured in genotypically normal (+/Y) mice and mice with sex-linked anemia (sla/Y), an X-linked recessive trait determined by a defect in intestinal iron absorption. Liver and splenic ferritin concentration was lower in sla/Y animals than in +/Y animals. Parenteral iron administration produced an increase in the duodenal, liver, and splenic ferritin concentration in both sla/Y and +/Y animals that was most striking in the case of the liver. Duodenal ferritin synthesis, both in vivo and in vitro, was increased in iron-deficient sla/Y animals and decreased in iron-deficient +/Y animals. In contrast, liver ferritin synthesis was decreased in both sla/Y and +/Y iron-deficient animals. In sla/Y animals fed an iron-deficient diet, duodenal ferritin synthesis decreased to near normal levels. These results indicating a high level of duodenal ferritin synthesis in standard-fed mice with sex-linked anemia suggest that the primary genetic defect is more likely a disorder of intramucosal iron transport than a primary disturbance of ferritin metabolism.
mesh_terms: D000740:Anemia / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D004032:Diet; D004386:Duodenum / Q000378:metabolism; D005293:Ferritins / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000378:metabolism*; D007501:Iron / Q000494:pharmacology; D007930:Leucine / Q000378:metabolism; D008099:Liver / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D012730:Sex Chromosomes; D013154:Spleen / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D005293:Ferritins; D007501:Iron; D007930:Leucine