X-ray Crystallography Image of TfR1 (IMAGE)

Boston Children's Hospital

X-ray Crystallography Image of TfR1

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The TfR1 receptor, whose three-dimensional structure was determined in 1999, not only serves as an entry portal for New World arenaviruses, but plays a key role in transporting iron into cells.

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Courtesy Stephen Harrison, PhD, Children's Hospital Boston and Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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