... amino-acid sequence of the arteminmonomer consists of 230 residues with a calculated molecular mass of 25 976 Da.The ferritin cDNA (accession number AY062897) of 725 bp consists of an ORF of 516 bp, ... Canada;2Department of Molecular Cell Biology,Sylvius Laboratory, Leiden, the Netherlands;3Section of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California,Davis, Bodega Bay, CA, USA;4Department of Biological ... ferritins, and they form oligomers of similar size [23]. Thus, purified artemin has a sedimentationconstant of 19S and a molecular mass of 573–610 kDa,probably consisting of 24 subunits. It was suggested...