{"id":232007,"date":"2026-02-24T21:10:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T03:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/this-research-article-uncovers-an-unexpected-function-of-iron-regulatory-protein-1-in-metabolic-regulation"},"modified":"2026-02-24T21:10:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T03:10:42","slug":"this-research-article-uncovers-an-unexpected-function-of-iron-regulatory-protein-1-in-metabolic-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/this-research-article-uncovers-an-unexpected-function-of-iron-regulatory-protein-1-in-metabolic-regulation","title":{"rendered":"This Research Article uncovers an unexpected function of iron regulatory protein 1 in metabolic regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-research-article-uncovers-an-unexpected-function-of-iron-regulatory-protein-1-in-metabolic-regulation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kostas Pantopoulos &amp; team find mice that lack IRP1 have altered energy metabolism and are protected against metabolic syndrome pathologies:<\/p>\n<p>The figure shows liver in Irp1-\/- mice fed a high-fat diet have reduced fat content; stained with oil red O. MetabolicSyndrome.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<sup>1<\/sup>Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital and Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.<\/p>\n<p><sup>2<\/sup>Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology &amp; Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.<\/p>\n<p><sup>3<\/sup>Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kostas Pantopoulos &amp; team find mice that lack IRP1 have altered energy metabolism and are protected against metabolic syndrome pathologies: The figure shows liver in Irp1-\/- mice fed a high-fat diet have reduced fat content; stained with oil red O. MetabolicSyndrome. 1Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital and Department of Medicine, McGill [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}