Abstract
1. 1. Reticulocytosis was induced in toads ( Bufo marinus) by treatment with phenylhydrazine. Iron and transferrin uptake and transferrin endocytosis and exocytosis by these cells were measured. 2. 2. The mean number of transferrin receptors per cell was found to be 4.5 × 10 5 and the affinity constant of transferrin to receptors was 0.2 × 10 7M −1. 3. 3. Iron and transferrin uptake were temp.-dependent processes. An inflection point occurred at 15–16°C in the Arrhenius plots of endocytosis and iron uptake. The activation energies of these two processes above and below the inflection temperature were 31 and 71 kJ/mol. 4. 4. It is concluded that iron uptake by immature toad erythroid cells occurs by receptor-mediated endocytosis which still functions at temps as low as 5°C.
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