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ReviewBioMed research international2015

Transferrin: Endocytosis and Cell Signaling in Parasitic Protozoa.

Magda Reyes-López, Carolina Piña-Vázquez, Jesús Serrano-Luna

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Review in BioMed research international, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Protein dysregulation duringFrontiers in immunology · 2025
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  2. Effect ofJournal of parasitic diseases : official organ of the Indian Society for Parasitology · 2024
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  6. The Trypanosomal Transferrin Receptor of Trypanosoma Brucei-A Review.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Magda Reyes-LópezCentro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Apartado Postal 14-740, 07000 México, DF, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0002-5471-6667
Carolina Piña-VázquezCentro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Apartado Postal 14-740, 07000 México, DF, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0001-5972-8547
Jesús Serrano-LunaCentro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Apartado Postal 14-740, 07000 México, DF, Mexico.
Instituto Politécnico Nacional · MX

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Iron is the fourth most abundant element on Earth and the most abundant metal in the human body. This element is crucial for life because almost all organisms need iron for several biological activities. This is the case with pathogenic organisms, which are at the vanguard in the battle with the human host for iron. The latest regulates Fe concentration through several iron-containing proteins, such as transferrin. The transferrin receptor transports iron to each cell that needs it and maintains it away from pathogens. Parasites have developed several strategies to obtain iron as the expression of specific transferrin receptors localized on plasma membrane, internalized through endocytosis. Signal transduction pathways related to the activation of the receptor have functional importance in proliferation. The study of transferrin receptors and other proteins with action in the signaling networks is important because these proteins could be used as therapeutic targets due to their specificity or to differences with the human counterpart. In this work, we describe proteins that participate in signal transduction processes, especially those that involve transferrin endocytosis, and we compare these processes with those found in T. brucei, T. cruzi, Leishmania spp., and E. histolytica parasites.

Indexed as

AnimalsAntigens, CDCell MembraneEndocytosisHumansIronParasitesReceptors, TransferrinSignal TransductionTransferrinAntigens, CDCD71 antigenIronReceptors, TransferrinTransferrin

Identifiers

PMID26090431
PMCPMC4450279
OpenAlexW1537860566

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