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COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY
Volume 3, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-020-01294-5
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- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [DK W1212]
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Iron is essential for living cells. Uptake of iron-loaded transferrin by the transferrin receptor 1 (CD71, TFR) is a major but not sufficient mechanism and an alternative iron-loaded ligand for CD71 has been assumed. Here, we demonstrate that CD71 utilizes heme-albumin as cargo to transport iron into human cells. Binding and endocytosis of heme-albumin via CD71 was sufficient to promote proliferation of various cell types in the absence of transferrin. Growth and differentiation of cells induced by heme-albumin was dependent on heme-oxygenase 1 (HO-1) function and was accompanied with an increase of the intracellular labile iron pool (LIP). Import of heme-albumin via CD71 was further found to contribute to the efficacy of albumin-based drugs such as the chemotherapeutic Abraxane. Thus, heme-albumin/CD71 interaction is a novel route to transport nutrients or drugs into cells and adds to the emerging function of CD71 as a scavenger receptor.
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