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Balancing Acts: Molecular Control of Mammalian Iron Metabolism

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The study of iron biology has provided novel insights into gene regulation and unveiled remarkable links to the immune system.
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This article is published in Cell.The article was published on 2004-04-30 and is currently open access. It has received 1687 citations till now.

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Global quantification of mammalian gene expression control

TL;DR: Using a quantitative model, the first genome-scale prediction of synthesis rates of mRNAs and proteins is obtained and it is found that the cellular abundance of proteins is predominantly controlled at the level of translation.
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Hepcidin Regulates Cellular Iron Efflux by Binding to Ferroportin and Inducing Its Internalization

TL;DR: It is reported that hepcidin bound to ferroportin in tissue culture cells, leading to decreased export of cellular iron and the posttranslational regulation of ferroports by hePCidin may complete a homeostatic loop.
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Metal-organic frameworks in biomedicine.

TL;DR: Metal Organic Frameworks in Biomedicine Patricia Horcajada, Ruxandra Gref, Tarek Baati, Phoebe K. Allan, Guillaume Maurin, Patrick Couvreur, G erard F erey, Russell E. Morris, and Christian Serre.
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A novel MHC class-I-like gene is mutated in patients with hereditary haemochromatosis

John N. Feder
- 01 Jan 1996 - 
TL;DR: Using linkage–disequilibrium and full haplotype analysis, a region more than 3 megabases telomeric of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) that is identical–by–descent in 85% of patient chromosomes is identified, containing a gene related to the MHC class I family, termed HLA–H, containing two missense alterations.
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Cloning and characterization of a mammalian proton-coupled metal-ion transporter

TL;DR: A new metal-ion transporter in the rat, DCT1, which has an unusually broad substrate range that includes Fe2+, Zn2+, Mn2+, Co2+, Cd2+, Cu2+, Ni2+ and Pb2+.
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IL-6 mediates hypoferremia of inflammation by inducing the synthesis of the iron regulatory hormone hepcidin

TL;DR: These studies in human liver cell cultures, mice, and human volunteers indicate that IL-6 is the necessary and sufficient cytokine for the induction of hepcidin during inflammation and that the IL- 6-hepcid in axis is responsible for the hypoferremia of inflammation.
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Hepcidin, a Urinary Antimicrobial Peptide Synthesized in the Liver *

TL;DR: Hepcidin may be a vertebrate counterpart of cysteine-rich antimicrobial peptides produced in the fat body of insects and exhibited antifungal activity against Candida albicans, Aspergillus fumigatus, and As pergillus nigerand antibacterial activity against Escherichia coli.
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