Talk:PCBP1

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Shi, H. F., K. Z. Bencze, et al. (2008). "A cytosolic iron chaperone that delivers iron to ferritin." Science 320(5880): 1207-1210. Ferritins are the main iron storage proteins found in animals, plants, and bacteria. The capacity to store iron in ferritin is essential for life in mammals, but the mechanism by which cytosolic iron is delivered to ferritin is unknown. Human ferritins expressed in yeast contain little iron. Human poly (rC)- binding protein 1 ( PCBP1) increased the amount of iron loaded into ferritin when expressed in yeast. PCBP1 bound to ferritin in vivo and bound iron and facilitated iron loading into ferritin in vitro. Depletion of PCBP1 in human cells inhibited ferritin iron loading and increased cytosolic iron pools. Thus, PCBP1 can function as a cytosolic iron chaperone in the delivery of iron to ferritin.

I'm not going to try to edit the article on PCBP1 but if anyone else is interested this article could be useful..... jayoval (talk) 07:44, 30 July 2008 (UTC)