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FASEB JOURNAL
Volume 30, Issue 2, Pages 813-823Publisher
FEDERATION AMER SOC EXP BIOL
DOI: 10.1096/fj.15-276758
Keywords
retinal pigment epithelium; vascular endothelium; iron transport; blood-brain barrier
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- U.S. National Institutes of Health, National Eye Institute Grant [NEI EY015240]
- Research to Prevent Blindness
- F. M. Kirby Foundation
- Paul and Evanina Bell Mackall Foundation Trust
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [SFB1118]
- Max Kade Foundation
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Because ferroportin (Fpn) is theonlyknown mammalian cellular iron exporter, understanding its localization and regulation within the retina would shed light on the direction of retinal iron flux. The hormone hepcidin may regulate retinal Fpn, as it triggers Fpn degradation in the gut. Immunofluorescence was used to label Fpn in retinas of mice with 4 different genotypes (wild type; Fpn C326S, a hepcidin-resistant Fpn; hepcidin knockout; and ceruloplasmin/hephaestin double knockout). No significant difference in Fpn levels was observed in these retinas. Fpn localized to the abluminal side of the outer plexiform vascular endothelial cells, Muller glia cells, and the basolateral side of the retinal pigment epithelium. Adeno-associated virus (AAV)-hepcidin was injected into the eyes of hepcidin knockout mice, while AAV-lacZ was injected into the contralateral eyes as a control. AAV-hepcidin injected eyes had increased ferritin immunolabeling in retinal vascular endothelial cells. Fpn C326S mice had systemic iron overload compared to wild type and had the fastest retinal iron accumulation of any hereditary model studied to date. The results suggest that physiologic hepcidin levels are insufficient to alter Fpn levels within the retinal pigment epithelium and Muller cells, but may limit iron transport into the retina from vascular endothelial cells.
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