Anemia

Protein Essential For Iron Absorption Identified

Published in Blood Weekly, February 16th, 1998

A protein that is the single most critical known element in iron metabolism has been identified and characterized by scientists at the University at Buffalo in New York and Children's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. The protein is called Nramp2.

The first protein to be identified as essential for normal intestinal iron absorption and the first mammalian iron transporter to be characterized at the molecular level, Nramp2 appears to be involved in not just one but several critical roles in iron metabolism, indicated Michael Garrick, PhD, and his colleagues in the February 3, 1998, issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (vol. 95, no. 3).

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