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MUTATION RESEARCH-FUNDAMENTAL AND MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF MUTAGENESIS
卷 531, 期 1-2, 页码 81-92出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2003.08.004
关键词
oxidative cellular damage; hydrogen peroxide; iron homeostasis
The trace amounts of free iron can catalyse production of a highly toxic hydroxyl radical via Fenton/Haber-Weiss reaction cycle. The critical factor appears to be the availability and abundance of cellular labile iron pool (LIP) that constitutes a crossroad of metabolic pathways of iron-containing compounds and is midway between the cellular need of iron, its uptake and storage. To avoid an excess of harmful free iron, the LIP is kept at the lowest sufficient level by transcriptional and posttranscriptional control of the expression of principal proteins involved in iron homeostasis. The putative sources of cellular LIP, its homeostasis and its role in the cellular response to oxidative stress are discussed. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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