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Blocking iron's route into mitochondria made high cysteine harmless to cells
A Rockefeller group reports in Nature Metabolism that free cysteine pulls iron out of ferritin and into mitochondria, while glutathione, built on the same reactive sulfur group, leaves the stored iron alone.
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