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1. Nass R and Hamza I. The Nematode C. elegans as an Animal Model to Explore Toxicology In Vivo: Solid and Axenic Growth Culture Conditions and Compound Exposure Parameters. In: Current Protocols in Toxicology Eds. Bus, JS, Costa LG, Hodgson E, Lawrence DA and Reed DJ. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007; Unit 1.9 1.9.1-1.9.17. Download PDF
2. Hamza I. Intracellular Trafficking of Porphyrins. ACS Chem. Biol. 2006;1: 627–629 Download PDF
3. Held MR, Bungiro RD, Harrison LM, Hamza I and Cappello M. Dietary iron content mediates hookworm pathogenesis in vivo. Infect Immun. 2006;74:289-295 Download PDF.
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4. Rao A, Carta L, Lesuisse E and Hamza I. Lack of Heme Synthesis in a Free-Living Eukaryote. Proc Natl Acad Sci. 2005; 102:4270-4275 Download PDF (Supporting Data)
5. Hamza I, Prohaska JR and Gitlin. JD. Essential Role for Atox1 in the Copper-Mediated Intracellular Trafficking of the Menkes ATPase. Proc Natl Acad Sci. 2003; 100:1215-1220 Download PDF.
6. Hamza I and Gitlin JD. Copper chaperones for cytochrome c oxidase and human disease. J Bioenerg Biomembr. 2002; 34:381-388 Download PDF.
7. Hamza I and Gitlin JD. Hepatic Copper Transport. In: Molecular Pathogenesis of Cholestasis Ed. Trauner, M and Jansen P. Landes Bioscience, Austin, Texas 2002.
8. Hamza I and Gitlin JD. Copper-transporting ATPases. In: The Encyclopedia of Molecular Medicine Ed. Creighton T. New York, John Wiley & Sons, 2002; 904-906.
9. Hamza I, Faisst A, Prohaska JR, Chen J, Gruss P and Gitlin. JD. The metallochaperone Atox1 plays a critical role in perinatal copper homeostasis. Proc Natl Acad Sci. 2001; 98: 6848-6852 Download PDF
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10. Hamza I and Gitlin JD. Copper metabolism and the Liver. In: The Liver: Biology and Pathobiology. I Arias, Boyer, F Chisari, N Fausto, D Schachter and D Shafritz (eds) Williams and Wilkins, 2001; 331-343.
11. Hamza I, Klomp LWJ, Gaedigk R, White RA and Gitlin JD. Structure, expression and chromosomal localization of the mouse Atox1 gene. Genomics 2000; 63:294-297 Download PDF.
12. Hamza I, Qi Z, King ND and O'Brian MR. Fur-independent regulation of iron metabolism by Irr in Bradyrhizobium japonicum. Microbiology 2000; 146:669-676 Download PDF.
13. Hamza I, Schaefer M, Klomp LWJ and Gitlin JD. Interaction of the copper chaperone HAH1 with the Wilson disease protein is essential for copper homeostasis. Proc Natl Acad Sci. 1999; 96:13363-13368 Download PDF.
14. Qi Z, Hamza I and O'Brian MR. Heme is an effector molecule for iron-dependent degradation of the bacterial iron response regulator (Irr) protein. Proc Natl Acad Sci. 1999; 96:13056-13061 Download PDF.
15. Hamza I, Hassett R and O'Brian MR. Identification of a functional fur gene in Bradyrhizobium japonicum. J Bacteriol. 1999; 181:5843-5846 Download PDF.
16. Hamza I, Chauhan S, Hassett R and O'Brian MR. The bacterial Irr protein is required for coordination of heme biosynthesis with iron availability. J Biol Chem. 1998; 273:21669-21674 Download PDF.