Iron Release From Human Monocytes After Erythrophagocytosis In Vitro: An Investigation in Normal Subjects and Hereditary Hemochromatosis Patients

Author:

Moura Eunice1,Noordermeer Minke A.1,Verhoeven Nanda1,Verheul Andreas F.M.1,Marx Joannes J.M.1

Affiliation:

1. From the Department of Internal Medicine and Eijkman-Winkler Institute for Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Inflammation, University Hospital Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands; and Molecular Pathology and Immunology, Abel Salazar Institute for the Biomedical Sciences, Porto, Portugal.

Abstract

This study investigated the release of erythrocyte-derived iron from purified human monocytes obtained from healthy volunteers and hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) patients. After erythrophagocytosis of59Fe-labeled erythrocytes, a complete transfer of iron from hemoglobin (Hb) to ferritin was observed within 24 hours in both control and HH monocytes. The iron was released from the monocytes in the form of ferritin, Hb, and as nonprotein bound low molecular weight iron (LMW-Fe). During the initial rapid phase (<1.5 hours), iron release mostly consisted of Hb and LMW-Fe, while in the later phase (>1.5 hours), it was composed of ferritin and LMW-Fe. The kinetics of iron release were identical for HH monocytes. A high percentage of the total amount of iron was released as Hb both by viable normal and HH monocytes, suggesting that iron release as Hb is a physiologic process, which may occur whenever the erythrocyte-processing capacity of macrophages is exceeded. Most remarkably, HH monocytes released twice as much iron in a LMW form as control cells. Iron released in the form of LMW-Fe readily binds to plasma transferrin and may contribute to the high transferrin saturation and the occurrence of circulating nontransferrin-bound iron observed in HH patients.

Publisher

American Society of Hematology

Subject

Cell Biology,Hematology,Immunology,Biochemistry

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