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In addition, the transendothelial transport of P97 was sensitive to temperature and was both concentration‐ and conformation‐dependent, suggesting that the transport of P97 is due to receptor‐mediated endocytosis. In spite of the high degree of sequence identity between P97 and transferrin, a different receptor than the one for transferrin is involved in P97 transendothelial transport. A member of the low‐density lipoprotein receptor protein family, likely LRP, seems to be involved in P97 transendothelial transport. 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