Iron-responsive element binding protein
Overview
Human iron metabolism
Human iron metabolism is the set of chemical reactions maintaining human homeostasis of iron. Iron is an essential element for most life on Earth, including human beings. The control of this necessary but potentially toxic substance is an important part of many aspects of human health and disease...
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ACO1, or IRP1, is a bifunctional protein that functions as an iron-responsive element (IRE)-binding protein involved in the control of iron metabolism by binding mRNA to repress translation or degradation.
Quotations
Made it, Ma! Top of the world!
Note: ranked 18 in the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes|American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.
You know something, Verna, if I turn my back for long enough for Big Ed to put a hole in it, there'd be a hole in it.
Referring to his treacherous second in command.
Big Ed ... great big Ed. Y'know why they call 'im that? 'Cause his ideas are big. One day he's gonna get a really big one ... about me. And it'll be his last.
I told you to stay away from that radio. If that battery's dead, it'll have company.