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W Malorni1, F Iosi, M T Santini
1Department of Ultrastructures, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161, Rome, Italy.
Abstract:
Perturbation of the oxidative balance in biological systems plays an important role in numerous pathological states as well as in many physiological processes such as receptor activity. In order to evaluate if oxidative stress induced by menadione influences membrane receptor processes, a study was conducted on the transferrin receptor. Consequently, biochemical, biophysical and ultrastructural studies were carried out on different cell lines. The results obtained seem to indicate that oxidative stress is able of inducing a rapid and specific down-modulation of membrane transferrin receptor due to a block of receptor recycling on the cell surface without affecting binding affinity.
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