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CHEMISTRY & BIOLOGY
Volume 18, Issue 3, Pages 336-343Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2010.12.009
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- National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) [ID456073]
- NIH [R01 DK082717, R01 DK 065029]
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The peptide hormone hepcidin is a key homeostatic regulator of iron metabolism and involved in pathological regulation of iron in response to infection, inflammation, hypoxia, and anemia. It acts by binding to the iron exporter ferroportin, causing it to be internalized and degraded; however, little is known about the structure/activity relationships of the interaction of hepcidin with ferroportin. We show that there are key residues in the N-terminal region of hepcidin that influence its interaction with ferroportin, and we explore the structure/function relationships at these positions. A series of hepcidin mutants in which disulfide bonds were replaced with diselenide bonds showed no change in activity compared to native hepcidin. These results identify important constraints for the development of hepcidin congeners for the treatment of hereditary iron overload.
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