Iron is essential for both plant productivity and nutritional quality. Improving plant iron
content was attempted through genetic engineering of plants overexpressing ferritins …

Background Iron is an essential element for both plant productivity and nutritional quality.
Improving plant iron content was attempted through genetic engineering of plants …

Plant ferritins are key iron-storage proteins that share important structural and functional
similarities with animal ferritins. However, specific features characterize plant ferritins …

Ferritin protein nanocages are the main iron store in mammals. They have been predicted to
fulfil the same function in plants but direct evidence was lacking. To address this, a loss‐of …

Ferritin, a protein widespread in nature, concentrates iron− 10 11− 10 12-fold above the
solubility within a spherical shell of 24 subunits; it derives in plants and animals from a …

Four ferritin genes are found within the complete sequence of the Arabidopsis thaliana
genome. All of them are expressed and their corresponding cDNA species have been …

The iron-storage protein ferritin has been purified to homogeneity from maize seeds,
allowing to determine the sequence of the first 29 NH 2-terminal amino acids of its subunit …

Intracellular iron concentration requires tight control and is regulated both at the uptake and
storage levels. Our knowledge of the role that the iron‐storage protein ferritins play in plants …

Ferritin is present in almost all species and was detected in many cells, mainly in tissues not
associated with full photosynthetic activity and throughout the plant life cycle. It is quite …

Ferritin is a multimeric iron storage protein composed of 24 subunits. Ferritin purified from
dried soybean seed resolves into two peptides of 26.5 and 28 kDa. To date, the 26.5-kDa …