Spotty Iron (IMAGE)

Wiley

Spotty Iron

Caption

Surface deposition of holo human transferrin from aqueous solutions gives rise to long protein fibrils with regular periodic nanomineralization along their length of an FeIII oxide/hydroxide closely resembling lepidocrocite.

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(C) Wiley-VCH 2008

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