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Facts about Mitoferrin-2.
The iron delivered into the mitochondria, presumably as Fe(2+), is then probably delivered to ferrochelatase to catalyze Fe(2+) incorporation into protoprophyrin IX to make heme (By similarity). .
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | SLC25A28 |
| Uniprot: | Q96A46 |
| Entrez: | 81894 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| mitochondrial carrier (TC 2.A.29) family |

DKFZp547C109; hMRS3/4; MFRN2; Mitochondrial iron transporter 2; Mitochondrial RNA-splicing protein 3/4 homolog; mitoferrin-2; MRS3/4MRS4Lmitochondrial RNA splicing protein 3/4; NPD016; putative mitochondrial solute carrier; Solute carrier family 25 member 28; solute carrier family 25, member 28
Mass (kDA):
39.272 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 10q24.2 |
| Sequence: | 10; NC_000010.11 (99610522..99659507, complement) |
Ubiquitous. Expressed in placenta, lung, kidney, pancreas, liver, brain, skeletal muscle and heart.
Mitochondrion inner membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein. Isoform 1 and isoform 2 are both localized in the mitochondrion.




PMID: 11297739 by Li F.-Y., et al. Characterization of a novel human putative mitochondrial transporter homologous to the yeast mitochondrial RNA splicing proteins 3 and 4.