Abstract
Horse spleen ferritin was found to bind aluminium poorly after equilibrium dialysis with buffered aluminium citrate solutions. Not more than 10 aluminium atoms/ferritin molecule were bound from a 25 microM-aluminium solution, pH 7.4, and the degree of binding was dependent on the method used to prepare the aluminium citrate solution. Up to 120 aluminium atoms/molecule were bound when ferritin iron cores were reconstituted by the addition of 3000 Fe atoms to apoferritin in the presence of aluminium citrate. Comparison of previously published binding constants of ferritin and citrate for aluminium suggests that, in the cell, the prevalence of small ligands effectively prevents the association of large amounts of aluminium with ferritin.
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