Iron is an essential element for several metabolic pathways and physiological processes.
The maintenance of iron homeostasis within the human body requires a dynamic and highly
sophisticated interplay of several proteins, as states of iron deficiency or excess are both
potentially deleterious to health. Among these is plasma transferrin, which is central to iron
metabolism not only through iron transport between body tissues in a soluble nontoxic form
but also through its protective scavenger role in sequestering free toxic iron. The transferrin …