| Protein Name | hephaestin |
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| Organism | Rattus norvegicus |
| Gene ID | 117240 |
| Gene Symbol | Heph |
| UniProt | Q920H8 (HEPH_RAT) |
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Total Number of functionally related compound(s) :
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Total Number of Articles : 13 |
Description |
hephaestin |
| Gene Summary |
Predicted to enable ferroxidase activity. Predicted to be involved in intestinal iron absorption; multicellular organismal-level iron ion homeostasis; and positive regulation of iron export across plasma membrane. Predicted to act upstream of or within erythrocyte differentiation. Located in perinuclear region of cytoplasm. Orthologous to human HEPH (hephaestin). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025] |
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