title: [Intracellular iron metabolism].
abstract: Iron is essential to life but it is poorly soluble in biological fluids and toxic in excess. Organisms have developed multiple proteins to insure iron transport and storage, and some of these have only been discovered recently. Among them, members of the Nramp family are transmembrane proteins which transport several divalent cations, including Fe2+. These proteins participate in intestinal iron absorption, erythopoiesis and microbial defence. Frataxin, which is deficient in Friedreich's ataxia, regulates iron flux through mitochondria. The intracellular labile iron pool, an intermediate form of iron between different subcellular compartments, regulates ferritin synthesis and stability of mRNA coding for proteins of iron transport. Subunit composition of ferritin plays an important role in the control of the size of this labile iron pool.
authors.affiliation: INSERM U409, Faculté Xavier Bichat, Paris.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Beaumont
mesh_terms: D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D027682:Cation Transport Proteins; D003300:Copper / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D007424:Intracellular Fluid / Q000378:metabolism*; D007425:Intracellular Membranes / Q000378:metabolism; D007501:Iron / Q000378:metabolism*; D033862:Iron-Binding Proteins; D008264:Macrophages; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D014158:Transcription, Genetic; D000099173:Natural Resistance-associated Macrophage Protein 1; D000099236:Solute Carrier Family 11, Member 2
chemical_list: D002352:Carrier Proteins; D027682:Cation Transport Proteins; D003300:Copper; D007501:Iron; D033862:Iron-Binding Proteins; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D000099173:Natural Resistance-associated Macrophage Protein 1; D000099236:Solute Carrier Family 11, Member 2