Mechanisms controlling cellular and systemic iron homeostasis

B Galy, M Conrad, M Muckenthaler - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
In mammals, hundreds of proteins use iron in a multitude of cellular functions, including vital
processes such as mitochondrial respiration, gene regulation and DNA synthesis or repair …

Transferrin and transferrin receptors update

H Kawabata - Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 2019 - Elsevier
In vertebrates, transferrin (Tf) safely delivers iron through circulation to cells. Tf-bound iron is
incorporated through Tf receptor (TfR) 1-mediated endocytosis. TfR1 can mediate cellular …

An AAV capsid reprogrammed to bind human transferrin receptor mediates brain-wide gene delivery

Q Huang, KY Chan, J Wu, NR Botticello-Romero… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Develo** vehicles that efficiently deliver genes throughout the human central nervous
system (CNS) will broaden the range of treatable genetic diseases. We engineered an …

Human transferrin receptor can mediate SARS-CoV-2 infection

Z Liao, C Wang, X Tang, M Yang, Z Duan, L Liu… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection has been
detected in almost all organs of coronavirus disease-19 patients, although some organs do …

TFRC upregulation promotes ferroptosis in CVB3 infection via nucleus recruitment of Sp1

L Yi, Y Hu, Z Wu, Y Li, M Kong, Z Kang… - Cell Death & …, 2022 - nature.com
CVB3 is a single positive-strand enterovirus, and a common pathogen in myocarditis
etiology. Although a number of antiviral candidates are under development, specific targeted …

The broad-spectrum antiviral functions of IFIT and IFITM proteins

MS Diamond, M Farzan - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2013 - nature.com
Over the past few years, several groups have identified new genes that are transcriptionally
induced downstream of type I interferon (IFN) signalling and that inhibit infection by …

Depriving iron supply to the virus represents a promising adjuvant therapeutic against viral survival

W Liu, S Zhang, S Nekhai, S Liu - Current clinical microbiology reports, 2020 - Springer
Purpose of the review The ongoing outbreak of novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19)
caused by the 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) in China is lifting widespread …

Global diversity, population stratification, and selection of human copy-number variation

PH Sudmant, S Mallick, BJ Nelson, F Hormozdiari… - Science, 2015 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Most studies of human genetic variation have focused on single-nucleotide
variants (SNVs). However, copy-number variants (CNVs) affect more base pairs of DNA …

The transferrin receptor: the cellular iron gate

E Gammella, P Buratti, G Cairo, S Recalcati - Metallomics, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The transferrin receptor (TfR1), which mediates cellular iron uptake through clathrin-
dependent endocytosis of iron-loaded transferrin, plays a key role in iron homeostasis …

VLDLR and ApoER2 are receptors for multiple alphaviruses

LE Clark, SA Clark, CY Lin, J Liu, A Coscia, KG Nabel… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Alphaviruses, like many other arthropod-borne viruses, infect vertebrate species and insect
vectors separated by hundreds of millions of years of evolutionary history. Entry into …