This gene encodes the heavy subunit of ferritin, the major intracellular iron storage protein in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. It is composed of 24 subunits of the heavy and light ferritin chains. Variation in ferritin subunit composition may affect the rates of iron uptake and release in different tissues. A major function of ferritin is the storage of iron in a soluble and nontoxic state. Defects in ferritin proteins are associated with several neurodegenerative diseases. This gene has multiple pseudogenes. Several alternatively spliced transcript variants have been observed, but their biological validity has not been determined.[2]
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Further reading
Percy ME, Wong S, Bauer S, Liaghati-Nasseri N, Perry MD, Chauthaiwale VM, Dhar M, Joshi JG (Jan 1998). "Iron metabolism and human ferritin heavy chain cDNA from adult brain with an elongated untranslated region: new findings and insights". The Analyst. 123 (1): 41–50. doi:10.1039/a706355e. PMID9581019.
Arosio P, Adelman TG, Drysdale JW (Jun 1978). "On ferritin heterogeneity. Further evidence for heteropolymers". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 253 (12): 4451–8. PMID659425.
Lawson DM, Artymiuk PJ, Yewdall SJ, Smith JM, Livingstone JC, Treffry A, Luzzago A, Levi S, Arosio P, Cesareni G (Feb 1991). "Solving the structure of human H ferritin by genetically engineering intermolecular crystal contacts". Nature. 349 (6309): 541–4. doi:10.1038/349541a0. PMID1992356.
Hentze MW, Caughman SW, Rouault TA, Barriocanal JG, Dancis A, Harford JB, Klausner RD (Dec 1987). "Identification of the iron-responsive element for the translational regulation of human ferritin mRNA". Science. 238 (4833): 1570–3. doi:10.1126/science.3685996. PMID3685996.
Boyd D, Vecoli C, Belcher DM, Jain SK, Drysdale JW (Sep 1985). "Structural and functional relationships of human ferritin H and L chains deduced from cDNA clones". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 260 (21): 11755–61. PMID3840162.
Worwood M, Brook JD, Cragg SJ, Hellkuhl B, Jones BM, Perera P, Roberts SH, Shaw DJ (1985). "Assignment of human ferritin genes to chromosomes 11 and 19q13.3----19qter". Human Genetics. 69 (4): 371–4. doi:10.1007/BF00291657. PMID3857215.
Addison JM, Fitton JE, Lewis WG, May K, Harrison PM (Nov 1983). "The amino acid sequence of human liver apoferritin". FEBS Letters. 164 (1): 139–44. doi:10.1016/0014-5793(83)80037-4. PMID6653779.
Dhar MS, Joshi JG (Dec 1993). "Differential processing of the ferritin heavy chain mRNA in human liver and adult human brain". Journal of Neurochemistry. 61 (6): 2140–6. doi:10.1111/j.1471-4159.1993.tb07452.x. PMID7504084.
Connor JR, Snyder BS, Arosio P, Loeffler DA, LeWitt P (Aug 1995). "A quantitative analysis of isoferritins in select regions of aged, parkinsonian, and Alzheimer's diseased brains". Journal of Neurochemistry. 65 (2): 717–24. doi:10.1046/j.1471-4159.1995.65020717.x. PMID7616228.
Kato S, Sekine S, Oh SW, Kim NS, Umezawa Y, Abe N, Yokoyama-Kobayashi M, Aoki T (Dec 1994). "Construction of a human full-length cDNA bank". Gene. 150 (2): 243–50. doi:10.1016/0378-1119(94)90433-2. PMID7821789.
Dhar M, Chauthaiwale V, Joshi JG (Apr 1993). "Sequence of a cDNA encoding the ferritin H-chain from an 11-week-old human fetal brain". Gene. 126 (2): 275–8. doi:10.1016/0378-1119(93)90380-L. PMID7916709.
Qi Y, Dawson G (Oct 1994). "Hypoxia specifically and reversibly induces the synthesis of ferritin in oligodendrocytes and human oligodendrogliomas". Journal of Neurochemistry. 63 (4): 1485–90. doi:10.1046/j.1471-4159.1994.63041485.x. PMID7931301.
Rogers JT (Mar 1996). "Ferritin translation by interleukin-1and interleukin-6: the role of sequences upstream of the start codons of the heavy and light subunit genes". Blood. 87 (6): 2525–37. PMID8630420.
Bonaldo MF, Lennon G, Soares MB (Sep 1996). "Normalization and subtraction: two approaches to facilitate gene discovery". Genome Research. 6 (9): 791–806. doi:10.1101/gr.6.9.791. PMID8889548.