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The intracellular Fe 2+ can be exported by iron-efflux protein ferroportin (FPN1, also known as solute carrier family 40 member 1, SLC40A1) and then be reoxidized to Fe 3+ [35]

Eur Food Res Technol 228:813821

Through their interaction with the host, metabolites such as short-chain fatty acids (e.g., acetate, butyrate), amino acids, and bile acids significantly influence host nutrition, immune responses, and gut barrier integrity, while also regulating systemic metabolism (Morrison and Preston, 2016)

A mouse model of this ZIP8 variant (SLC39A8 A393T) demonstrated that the altered ZIP8 resulted in increased cobalt in the colonic mucosa but decreased iron, zinc, manganese, copper, and cadmium in the colonic lumen