The majority of iron taken up through membrane transporters enters a metabolically active pool in the cytosol ( FIGURE 1 COMPOSITION OF THE CYTOSOLIC LABILE IRON POOL From a conceptual standpoint, the cytosol must contain a kinetically labile, metabolically accessible pool of iron so that iron can be distributed to its various sites of utilization, transport, or storage (reviewed in Attempts have been made to characterize the molecular composition of the cytosolic LIP and some progress has been made
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