Abstract
Iron is a highly reactive metal which will bind to a wide variety of biological substances including sugars, amino acids, nucleotides, peptides and proteins. To discuss iron binding proteins is to discuss almost all human proteins. In this paper I intend to discuss the role of the specific iron binding proteins, transferrin and ferritin, in relation to the physiology and pathology of iron transport and metabolism.
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Jacobs, A. (1979). Iron binding proteins. In: Ward, A.M., Whicher, J.T. (eds) Immunochemistry in Clinical Laboratory Medicine. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6591-4_11
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