Haptoglobin genotype and the iron hypothesis of atherosclerosis.
Haptoglobin genotype and the iron hypothesis of atherosclerosis.
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触珠蛋白基因型和动脉粥样硬化的铁假说。
DOI:
10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2011.01.029
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2011
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5.3
通讯作者:
Levy,AndrewP
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Viener,HillaLee;Levy,AndrewP
Jerome Sullivan first proposed 30 years ago that iron deficiency may be protective against the development of ischemic heart disease [1]. Enthusiasm for this hypothesis was dampened by a series of studies which failed to show that conventional measurements of total body iron status were associated with increased atherosclerosis in man. However, one potential reason for the failure to demonstrate an association between iron and atherosclerosis in these studies may have been due to a failure to focus on the molecular form of iron which is most likely responsible for inducing atherosclerosis. Iron is a reasonable candidate for carrying out the oxidative modifications which are believed to be paramount in the atherosclerotic process [2]. Iron is capable of generating highly reactive label oxygen free radicals such as superoxide radical and hydroxyl radical under physiological conditions. However, most of the iron in our bodies is stored bound to professional iron binding proteins-transferrin or ferritin-in which the iron is redox inactive and not capable of inducing oxidation of substrates. Over the past 10 years it has become appreciated that there exists a small but tightly regulated pool of iron which is not bound to transferrin or ferritin and which is redox active (referred to as labile plasma non-transferrin bound iron or NTBI)[3, 4]. NTBI represents a number of molecular species very few of which have been identified. One type of NTBI which has been identified is the iron contained within the Haptoglobin-hemoglobin complex [5].Haptoglobin (Hp) is an abundant plasma protein which binds with high affinity to hemoglobin [6]. While the heme iron in hemoglobin is a very potent oxidant, the binding of Hp to hemoglobin serves to decrease the ability of iron derived from hemoglobin from carrying out oxidative reactions [7]. In man their exists two possible alleles at the Hp genetic locus, denoted 1 and 2. The protein product of the Hp 2 allele is defective in its ability to block oxidative reactions mediated by iron derived hemoglobin. Therefore, while the Hp 1-Hb complex is relatively redox inert, the Hp 2-Hb complex contains by definition nontransferrin bound redox-active iron [5].
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5.3
作者:
Kalet-Litman,Shiri;Moreno,PedroR;Levy,AndrewP
通讯作者:
Levy,AndrewP
影响因子:
2.1
作者:
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通讯作者:
Levy AP
DOI:
10.1016/s0955-3886(00)00087-4
发表时间:
2000-12-01
期刊:
TRANSFUSION SCIENCE
影响因子:
--
作者:
Breuer, W;Hershko, C;Cabantchik, ZI
通讯作者:
Cabantchik, ZI
影响因子:
1.9
作者:
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通讯作者:
A. Levy
DOI:
10.1016/s0735-1097(02)02534-2
发表时间:
2002-12-04
影响因子:
24
作者:
Levy, AP;Hochberg, I;Howard, BV
通讯作者:
Howard, BV