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Serum ferritin is derived primarily from macrophages through a nonclassical secretory pathway
Abstract
The serum ferritin concentration is a clinical parameter measured widely for the differential diagnosis of anemia. Its levels increase with elevations of tissue iron stores and with inflammation, but studies on cellular sources of serum ferritin as well as its subunit composition, degree of iron loading and glycosylation have given rise to conflicting results. To gain further understanding of serum ferritin, we have used traditional and modern methodologies to characterize mouse serum ferritin. We find that both splenic macrophages and proximal tubule cells of the kidney are possible cellular sources for serum ferritin and that serum ferritin is secreted by cells rather than being the product of a cytosolic leak from damaged cells. Mouse serum ferritin is composed mostly of L-subunits, whereas it contains few H-subunits and iron content is low. L-subunits of serum ferritin are frequently truncated at the C-terminus, giving rise to a characteristic 17-kD band that has been previously observed in lysosomal ferritin. Taken together with the fact that mouse serum ferritin is not detectably glycosylated, we propose that mouse serum ferritin is secreted through the nonclassical lysosomal secretory pathway.
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“Of note, IrpLyzCre(+) mice display a marked increase in plasma ferritin concentration (Figure 1E), as predicted for animals with augmented macrophage ferritin expression (Cohen et al., 2010).”
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“This result supports earlier work concluding that macrophages represent a major source of ferritin in the blood (Cohen et al., 2010).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Cohen, L. A., Gutierrez, L., Weiss, A., Leichtmann-Bardoogo, Y., Zhang, D.-L., Crooks, D. R., Sougrat, R., Morgenstern, A., Galy, B., Hentze, M. W., Lazaro, F. J., Rouault, T. A., & Meyron-Holtz, E. G.
- Affiliations
- Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (IL)
- Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología de Materiales y Fluidos, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain;
- Laboratory for Molecular Nutrition, Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion, Technion City, Haifa, Israel;
- Molecular Medicine Program and
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory (DE)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Blood
- Publisher
- American Society of Hematology
- Published
- 2010-09-02
- Volume
- 116
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 1574-1584
- ISSN
- 0006-4971 (ISSN-L)
- 1528-0020
- OpenAlex
- W2153170511
- Cited by
- 452
- References
- 53
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 11.41
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Blood (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Hematology › Iron Metabolism and Disorders
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Neurology › Neurological diseases and metabolism
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Trace Elements in Health
- Keywords
- serum ferritin, macrophages, lysosomal secretion, L subunit, H subunit, C-terminal truncation, glycosylation, proximal tubular epithelial cells, splenic macrophages, iron stores, mice
- MeSH terms
- Amino Acid Sequence, Animals, Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay, Ferritins, Glycosylation, Iron, Lysosomes, Macrophages, Male, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Molecular Sequence Data, Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, Iron Overload, Protein Subunits, Mice, Secretory Pathway
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