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Blood, 15 May 2007, Vol. 109, No. 10, pp. 4174-4180.
Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on February 8, 2007; DOI 10.1182/blood-2007-01-066068.
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The flatiron mutation in mouse ferroportin acts as a dominant negative to cause ferroportin disease
Irene E. Zohn1,
Ivana De Domenico2,
Andrew Pollock1,
Diane McVey Ward2,
Jessica F. Goodman1,
Xiayun Liang3,
Amaru J. Sanchez1,
Lee Niswander1, and
Jerry Kaplan2
1 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Developmental Biology, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Aurora;
2 Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City;
3 Department of Pathology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver
Ferroportin disease is caused by mutation of one allele of the iron exporter ferroportin (Fpn/IREG1/Slc40a1/MTP1). All reported human mutations are missense mutations and heterozygous null mutations in mouse Fpn do not recapitulate the human disease. Here we describe the flatiron (ffe) mouse with a missense mutation (H32R) in Fpn that affects its localization and iron export activity. Similar to human patients with classic ferroportin disease, heterozygous ffe/+ mice present with iron loading of Kupffer cells, high serum ferritin, and low transferrin saturation. In macrophages isolated from ffe/+ heterozygous mice and through the use of Fpn plasmids with the ffe mutation, we show that Fpnffe acts as a dominant negative, preventing wild-type Fpn from localizing on the cell surface and transporting iron. These results demonstrate that mutations in Fpn resulting in protein mislocalization act in a dominant-negative fashion to cause disease, and the Fpnffe mouse represents the first mouse model of ferroportin disease.

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