Ferritin-Fe(III) was rapidly and quantitatively reduced and liberated as Fe(II) by FMNH(2), FADH(2) and reduced riboflavin. Dithionite also released Fe(II) from ferritin but at less than 1% of the rate with FMNH(2). Cysteine, glutathione and ascorbate gave a similar slower rate and yielded less than 20% of the total iron from ferritin within a few hours. The reduction of ferritin-Fe(III) by the three riboflavin compounds gave complex second-order kinetics with overlapping fast and slow reactions. The fast reaction appeared to be non-specific and may be due to a reduction of Fe(III) of a lower degree of polymerization, equilibrated with ferritin iron. The amount of this Fe(3+) ion initially reduced was small, less than 0.3% of the total iron. Addition of FMN to the ferritin-dithionite system enhanced the reduction; this is due to the reduction of FMN by dithionite to form FMNH(2) which then reduces ferritin-Fe(III). A comparison of the thermodynamic parameters of FMNH(2)-ferritin and dithionite-ferritin complex formation showed that FMNH(2) required a lower activation energy and a negative entropy change, whereas dithionite required 50% more activation energy and showed a positive entropy change in ferritin reduction. The effectiveness of FMNH(2) in ferritin-Fe(III) reduction may be due to a specific binding of the riboflavin moiety to the protein portion of the ferritin molecule.
NADH-FMN oxidoreductase has been proposed as an enzyme involved in the release of iron from ferritin. The effects of riboflavin and/or iron deficiencies and of dietary allopurinol on the activities of this enzyme and on the iron contents of liver, kidney and duodenum were investigated. Allopurinol, a xanthine oxidase inhibitor, did not affect organ enzyme activities nor iron contents. Riboflavin-deficient rats and iron-deficient rats both had significantly lower organ enzyme activities and iron contrnts than controls. Organ enzyme activities and iron contents of rats fed a diet deficient in both iron and riboflavin were significantly lower than those of controls. After dietary iron and/or riboflavin repletion, organ enzyme activities and iron contents increased. Rats fed an irons-overload diet had enzyme activities similar to that of controls, but organ iron contents were significantly increased over those of controls. Effects of riboflavin and/or deficiencies in rats on NADH-FMN oxidoreductase activities and iron contents of liver, kidney and duodenum appeared to be reversible by riboflavin and/or iron supplementation. The data support the view that NADH-FMN oxidoreductase may be a controlling enxyme in iron release from ferritin.
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