transferrin
IPA: trˈænsfɝˈin
noun
- (biochemistry) A glycoprotein, a beta globulin, in blood serum that combines with and transports iron.
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Examples of "transferrin" in Sentences
- Carbohydrate deficient transferrin.
- That will stop transferrin receptor production.
- Transferrin and beta lipoprotein comprises the beta 1.
- Transferrin is also associated with the innate immune system.
- Transferrin receptor production depends on a similar mechanism.
- Thus, transferrin receptor maintains cellular iron homeostasis.
- TIBC is less expensive than a direct measurement of transferrin.
- Transferrin can instead be removed by size exclusion chromatography.
- Transferrin binds iron and is responsible for iron transport in the blood.
- Transferrin is a glycoprotein that binds iron very tightly but reversibly.
- At the low endosomal pH, the affinity between iron and transferrin is weakened dramatically.
- He or she should check your iron level with a transferrin saturation test or a ferritin test.
- The other gauges the saturation rate of a protein called transferrin, which binds to iron and shuttles it through the body.
- Native endogenous Irgm1 is scarcely if at all detectable on early and recycling endosomes defined by early and late uptake of fluorochrome-labelled transferrin (
- (C) After treatment with 200 U/ml IFNγ for 24 hours, MEFs were incubated with Alexa-Fluor-546-labelled transferrin for 5 minutes (a-c) or pulsed with labelled transferrin for 10 minutes, then chased for 30 minutes (d-f).
- In this animal study, injections of the protein, known as transferrin, also protected against potentially fatal iron overload in mice with thalassemia, a type of inherited anemia that affects millions of people worldwide.
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