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A note on the composition and properties of ferritin iron cores
A Treffry1, P M Harrison, M I Cleton
1Department of Biochemistry, The University, Sheffield, U.K.
Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry
|September 1, 1987
Abstract:
In ferritins and bacterioferritins iron is stored as an inorganic complex within a protein shell. The composition and properties of this complex are surprisingly variable. Factors that may lead to such variability are discussed.