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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Nov 4.
Published in final edited form as: Nanotechnol Percept. 2012;8(1):7–16. doi: 10.4024/n03th12a.ntp.08.01

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Influence of eukaryotic ferritin cage structure on ordered nanomineral growth. The model of how ferritin cage structure influences nanomineral order is based on the identification of retained oxidation products within the cage over four catalytic (oxidoreductase or “ferroxidase”) cycles,15 formation of dimeric multimers in ferritin with subsaturating amounts of iron34 and tissue-specific variations in natural ferritin minerals.31