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Hepcidin-Ferroportin Interaction Controls Systemic Iron Homeostasis International Journal of Molecular Sciences Review Hepcidin-Ferroportin Interaction Controls Systemic Iron Homeostasis Elizabeta Nemeth 1 and Tomas Ganz 2,* 1 Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; [email protected] 2 Departments of Medicine and Pathology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA * Correspondence: [email protected] Abstract: Despite its abundance in the environment, iron is poorly bioavailable and subject to strict conservation and internal recycling by most organisms. In vertebrates, the stability of iron concentration in plasma and extracellular fluid, and the total body iron content are maintained by the interaction of the iron-regulatory peptide hormone hepcidin with its receptor and cellular iron exporter ferroportin (SLC40a1). Ferroportin exports iron from duodenal enterocytes that absorb dietary iron, from iron-recycling macrophages in the spleen and the liver, and from iron-storing hepatocytes. Hepcidin blocks iron export through ferroportin, causing hypoferremia. During iron deficiency or after hemorrhage, hepcidin decreases to allow iron delivery to plasma through ferroportin, thus promoting compensatory erythropoiesis. As a host defense mediator, hepcidin increases in response to infection and inflammation, blocking iron delivery through ferroportin to blood plasma, thus limiting iron availability to invading microbes. Genetic diseases that decrease hepcidin synthesis or disrupt hepcidin binding to ferroportin cause the iron overload disorder hereditary hemochromatosis. The opposite phenotype, iron restriction or iron deficiency, can result from genetic or inflammatory overproduction of hepcidin. Keywords: iron deficiency; iron overload; hemochromatosis; anemia; metal transport Citation: Nemeth, E.; Ganz, T. Hepcidin-Ferroportin Interaction Controls Systemic Iron Homeostasis. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2021, 22, 6493. 1. The Roles of Iron https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22126493 Iron is an essential trace element for nearly all living organisms. Even though iron is one of the most abundant elements in the Earth’s crust, ferric iron, an oxidized form Academic Editor: Wojciech Bal common in the oxygen-rich environment on the surface of the Earth, is poorly soluble and difficult to access by most life forms. Accordingly, biological organisms have evolved Received: 2 June 2021 mechanisms that conserve iron and recycle it internally. In adult humans, total body iron Accepted: 14 June 2021 Published: 17 June 2021 content is approximately 3–4 g, whereas normal daily losses are only 1–2 mg. To remain in iron balance, healthy humans must absorb a similar amount of iron from their diets. The ability of iron to donate or accept an electron in cellular and extracellular envi- Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in ronments is what makes it a versatile catalytic component of many enzymes involved in published maps and institutional affil- energy-producing bioreactions and critical biosynthetic pathways, as well as in enzymes iations. that generate reactive oxygen species for host defense. Iron also coordinates oxygen in hemoglobin and myoglobin, molecules involved in oxygen transport and its cellular storage. In biological systems, iron carries out its function in association with three common types of moieties: iron coordinated by protein side chains, iron complexed within the porphyrin ring of heme, and iron within iron-sulfur clusters. Outside of these controlled chemical Copyright: © 2021 by the authors. environments, iron displays promiscuous reactivity that can damage cells and tissues. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article 2. Iron Compartments and Flows distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Biological organisms closely regulate intracellular and extracellular iron concentra- Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// tions, navigating between the twin threats of inadequate iron supply that would limit creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ critical functions, and uncontrolled iron excess that could be toxic to the organism. Sys- 4.0/). temic iron homeostasis, best understood in humans and laboratory rodents, is maintained Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2021, 22, 6493. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22126493 https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijms Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2021, 22, x FOR PEER REVIEW 2 of 13 2. Iron Compartments and Flows Biological organisms closely regulate intracellular and extracellular iron concentra- tions, navigating between the twin threats of inadequate iron supply that would limit crit- ical functions, and uncontrolled iron excess that could be toxic to the organism. Systemic Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2021, 22, 6493 iron homeostasis, best understood in humans and laboratory rodents, is maintained2 ofby 13 regulating intestinal iron absorption, the concentration of iron in blood plasma and extra- cellular fluid, the distribution of iron among organs and tissues, and the amount of iron keptby regulating in stores. 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The recycling [1]. The spleen,macrophages which in represents the spleen, a substantial liver and marrow portion func- of the tionmacrophage as a rapid storage turnover compartment, compartment normally [1]. The contains spleen, which only about represents 0.05 g ofa substantial iron but has por- the tioncapacity of the for macrophage much larger storage amounts compartment, [2]. Only about normally 0.3 g contains of iron are only contained about 0.05 in theg of other iron buttissues, has the in myoglobincapacity for of much muscles larger and amounts in iron-containing [2]. Only about enzymes. 0.3 g of iron are contained in theIron other is tissues, transported in myoglobin around the of body muscles on blood and in plasma iron-containing carrier protein enzymes. transferrin, whose two iron-binding sites are normally 20–45% occupied. 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