[HTML][HTML] Mechanistic concepts of iron-sulfur protein biogenesis in Biology

JJ Braymer, SA Freibert, M Rakwalska-Bange… - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Iron-sulfur (Fe/S) proteins are present in virtually all living organisms and are
involved in numerous cellular processes such as respiration, photosynthesis, metabolic …

Biogenesis of iron–sulfur clusters and their role in DNA metabolism

R Shi, W Hou, ZQ Wang, X Xu - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Iron–sulfur (Fe/S) clusters (ISCs) are redox-active protein cofactors that their synthesis,
transfer, and insertion into target proteins require many components. Mitochondrial ISC …

Genome-wide synthetic lethal screen unveils novel CAIX-NFS1/xCT axis as a targetable vulnerability in hypoxic solid tumors

SC Chafe, FS Vizeacoumar, G Venkateswaran… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The metabolic mechanisms involved in the survival of tumor cells within the hypoxic niche
remain unclear. We carried out a synthetic lethal CRISPR screen to identify survival …

Mitochondrial [4Fe-4S] protein assembly involves reductive [2Fe-2S] cluster fusion on ISCA1–ISCA2 by electron flow from ferredoxin FDX2

BD Weiler, MC Brück, I Kothe, E Bill… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The essential process of iron-sulfur (Fe/S) cluster assembly (ISC) in mitochondria occurs in
three major phases. First,[2Fe-2S] clusters are synthesized on the scaffold protein ISCU2; …

A VDAC1-mediated NEET protein chain transfers [2Fe-2S] clusters between the mitochondria and the cytosol and impacts mitochondrial dynamics

O Karmi, HB Marjault, F Bai, S Roy… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Mitochondrial inner NEET (MiNT) and the outer mitochondrial membrane (OMM) mitoNEET
(mNT) proteins belong to the NEET protein family. This family plays a key role in …

[HTML][HTML] METTL17 is an Fe-S cluster checkpoint for mitochondrial translation

T Ast, Y Itoh, S Sadre, JG McCoy, G Namkoong… - Molecular cell, 2024 - cell.com
Friedreich's ataxia (FA) is a debilitating, multisystemic disease caused by the depletion of
frataxin (FXN), a mitochondrial iron-sulfur (Fe-S) cluster biogenesis factor. To understand the …

Mechanisms of cellular iron sensing, regulation of erythropoiesis and mitochondrial iron utilization

N Maio, DL Zhang, MC Ghosh, A Jain… - Seminars in …, 2021 - Elsevier
To maintain an adequate iron supply for hemoglobin synthesis and essential metabolic
functions while counteracting iron toxicity, humans and other vertebrates have evolved …

From the discovery to molecular understanding of cellular iron-sulfur protein biogenesis

R Lill - Biological chemistry, 2020 - degruyter.com
Protein cofactors often are the business ends of proteins, and are either synthesized inside
cells or are taken up from the nutrition. A cofactor that strictly needs to be synthesized by …

[HTML][HTML] CIAO1 loss of function causes a neuromuscular disorder with compromise of nucleocytoplasmic Fe-S enzymes

N Maio, R Orbach, IT Zaharieva, A Töpf… - The Journal of …, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cytoplasmic and nuclear iron-sulfur (Fe-S) enzymes that are essential for genome
maintenance and replication depend on the cytoplasmic Fe-S assembly (CIA) machinery for …

High levels of frataxin overexpression lead to mitochondrial and cardiac toxicity in mouse models

B Belbellaa, L Reutenauer, N Messaddeq… - … Therapy-Methods & …, 2020 - cell.com
Friedreich ataxia (FA) is currently an incurable inherited mitochondrial disease caused by
reduced levels of frataxin (FXN). Cardiac dysfunction is the main cause of premature death …