Machine generated contents note: I. Molecular Aspects of Iron Transport -- 1. Iron Chemistry -- Wesley R. Harris -- 2. Transferrins -- Ross T. A. MacGillivray and Anne B. Mason -- 3. The Transferrin Receptor -- Caroline A. Enns -- 4. Molecular Aspects of Release of Iron from Transferrin -- Qing-Yu He and Anne B. Mason -- 5. Ferritins: Structural and Functional Aspects -- Paolo Arosio and Sonia Levi -- 6. The Divalent Metal-Ion Transporter (DCT1/DMT1/Nramp2) -- Hiromi Gunshin and Matthias A. Hediger -- 7. Basolateral Transport of Iron in Mammalian Intestine: From Physiology to Molecules -- Andrew T McKie and Robert J. Simpson -- 8. HFE -- Robert E. Fleming, Robert S. Britton, Abdul Waheed, William S. Sly, -- and Bruce R. Bacon -- 9. Regulation of Iron Homeostasis by Iron Regulatory Proteins -- 1 and 2 -- Eric S. Hanson and Elizabeth A. Leibold -- 10. Iron-Response Element (IRE) Structure and Combinatorial RNA Regulation -- Hans E. Johansson and Elizabeth C. Theil -- 11. Frataxin and Mitochondrial Iron -- Pierre Rustin -- 12. Siderophore Chemistry -- Alain Stintzi and Kenneth N. Raymond -- 13. Iron Chelator Chemistry -- Zu D. Liu and Robert C. Hider --II. Cellular Iron Transport -- 14. Iron Acquisition in Plants -- Elizabeth E. Rogers and Mary Lou Guerinot -- 15. Iron Uptake in Yeast -- Orly Ardon, Jerry Kaplan, and Brooke D. Martin -- 16. Bacterial Iron Transport -- Volkmar Braun and Klaus Hantke -- 17. Uptake of Transferrin-Bound Iron by Mammalian Cells -- Deborah Trinder and Evan Morgan -- 18. Transport of Non-Transferrin-Bound Iron by Hepatocytes -- Joel G. Parkes and Douglas M. Templeton -- 19. Iron Acquisition by the Reticuloendothelial System -- Gunter Weiss -- 20. Iron Transport in the Central Nervous System -- Joseph R. Burdo and James R. Connor -- 21. Iron Uptake by Neoplastic Cells -- Des R. Richardson -- 22. Novel Methods for Assessing Transport of Iron Across Biological Membranes -- Z. Ioav Cabantchik, Silvina Epsztejn, and William Breuer --III. Physiology of Iron Transport -- 23. Regulation of Intestinal Iron Transport -- Gregory J. Anderson and Christopher D. Vulpe -- 24. Regulation of Systemic Iron Transport and Storage -- Pierre Brissot, Christelle Pigeon, and Olivier Loreal -- 25. Regulation of Liver Iron Metabolism -- Gaetano Cairo -- 26. Iron Utilization in Erythrocyte Formation and Hemoglobin Synthesis -- Prem Ponka --IV. Disorders of Iron Transport -- 27. Animal Models of Iron Transport and Storage Disorders -- Nancy C. Andrews -- 28. Hemochromatosis: Diagnosis and Management Following the Discovery of the Gene -- Paul C. Adams -- 29. Transfusional Iron Overload -- Nancy F Olivieri -- 30. Aceruloplasminemia -- Nathan E. Hellman and Z. Leah Harris -- 31. Hereditary Hyperferritinemia Cataract Syndrome -- Carole Beaumont and Domenico Girelli -- 32. Other Disorders of Increased Iron Absorption: Iron Overload in Africans and African Americans -- Fitzroy W. Dawkins and Victor R. Gordeuk -- 33. Iron Chelation -- Chaim Hershko, Gabriela Link, and Avraham M. Konijn.