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Respiratory disorders: Ironing out smoking-related airway disease
- Journal name:
- Nature
- Volume:
- 531,
- Pages:
- 586–587
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- DOI:
- doi:10.1038/nature17309
- Published online
Lack of the protein IRP2 in mice prevents organelles called mitochondria from accumulating toxic levels of iron in response to smoke exposure. This discovery links environmental and genetic risk factors for a chronic lung disease.
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