“…Earlier work studying the effect of various phosphates on Fe delivery to mitochondria for haem synthesis (Konopka & Romslo, 1980, 1981Nilsen & Romslo, 1984a,b) used transferrin as a donor reservoir for Fe and measured Fe incorporation into haem. Thus a complex reaction which, in retrospect, probably included Fe release from transferrin, hydrolysis of the ligand-Fe complex, receptor binding and haem synthesis, was subsumed in a single measurement.…”