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SUBMITTER: Correnti C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3424236 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Correnti Colin C Richardson Vera V Sia Allyson K AK Bandaranayake Ashok D AD Ruiz Mario M Suryo Rahmanto Yohan Y Kovačević Žaklina Ž Clifton Matthew C MC Holmes Margaret A MA Kaiser Brett K BK Barasch Jonathan J Raymond Kenneth N KN Richardson Des R DR Strong Roland K RK
PloS one 20120821 8
Siderocalin (also lipocalin 2, NGAL or 24p3) binds iron as complexes with specific siderophores, which are low molecular weight, ferric ion-specific chelators. In innate immunity, siderocalin slows the growth of infecting bacteria by sequestering bacterial ferric siderophores. Siderocalin also binds simple catechols, which can serve as siderophores in the damaged urinary tract. Siderocalin has also been proposed to alter cellular iron trafficking, for instance, driving apoptosis through iron eff ...[more]