Wolf G, Wessling-Resnick M
Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of California, Berkeley.
Nutr Rev. 1994 Nov;52(11):387-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.1994.tb01370.x.
A pathway of iron transport not involving transferrin or transferrin receptors has been described as functioning in iron uptake into intestinal cells and in a hematopoietic cell line. Evidence was presented to show that it is mediated by a transmembrane protein (integrin) and a cytosolic protein (mobilferrin).