The expanding utility of iron-sulfur clusters: Their functional roles in biology, synthetic small molecules, maquettes and artificial proteins, biomimetic materials, and …

AE Boncella, ET Sabo, RM Santore, J Carter… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2022 - Elsevier
The ubiquity, structural variation, and functional diversity of iron-sulfur (Fe-S) clusters in
biological environments has long fascinated scientists. In nature, Fe-S clusters form a variety …

Methods to identify and characterize iron–sulfur oligopeptides in water

L Valer, D Rossetto, S Scintilla, YJ Hu… - Canadian Journal of …, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
Iron–sulfur clusters are ubiquitous cofactors that mediate central biological processes.
However, despite their long history, these metallocofactors remain challenging to investigate …

[HTML][HTML] Structures of Atm1 provide insight into [2Fe-2S] cluster export from mitochondria

P Li, AL Hendricks, Y Wang, RLE Villones… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
In eukaryotes, iron-sulfur clusters are essential cofactors for numerous physiological
processes, but these clusters are primarily biosynthesized in mitochondria. Previous studies …

[HTML][HTML] Metals are integral to life as we know it

D Rossetto, SS Mansy - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Investigations of biology and the origins of life regularly focus on the components of the
central dogma and thus the elements that compose nucleic acids and peptides. Less …

Histidine Ligated Iron‐Sulfur Peptides

L Valer, D Rossetto, T Parkkila, L Sebastianelli… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Iron‐sulfur clusters are thought to be ancient cofactors that could have played a role in early
protometabolic systems. Thus far, redox active, prebiotically plausible iron‐sulfur clusters …

Porphyrin in prebiotic catalysis: ascertaining a route for the emergence of early metalloporphyrins

S Dagar, S Sarkar, S Rajamani - ChemBioChem, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Metal ions are known to catalyze certain prebiotic reactions. However, the transition from
metal ions to extant metalloenzymes remains unclear. Porphyrins are found ubiquitously in …

Prebiotic Environments with Mg2+ and Thiophilic Metal Ions Increase the Thermal Stability of Cysteine and Non-cysteine Peptides

D Rossetto, L Valer, N Yeh Martín… - ACS Earth and Space …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Wet–dry cycles driven by heating to high temperatures are frequently invoked for the
prebiotic synthesis of peptides. Similarly, iron–sulfur clusters are often cited as an example …

Short non-coded peptides interacting with cofactors facilitated the integration of early chemical networks

MÁ Freire - Biosystems, 2022 - Elsevier
Independently developed iron-sulphur/thioester-and phosphate-driven chemical reactions
would have set up two distinct reaction networks prior to coupling in a proto-metabolic …

Unravelling the Structural Development of Peptide‐Coordinated Iron‐Sulfur Clusters: Prebiotic Evolution and Biosynthetic Strategies

Y Dong, S Zhang, L Zhao - Chinese Journal of Chemistry, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Comprehensive Summary Iron‐sulfur (Fe‐S) proteins are among the most common type of
natural metalloproteins that participate in a large range of key metabolic processes. To date …

The pH dependence of emulsifying properties for glutathione disulfide at oil-water interfaces

M Liu, H Mo, Q Gao, L Yuan - Biophysical Chemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
Although peptides were widely used in many fields, their interface behaviors as surfactants
have not been explored. The results of the surface tension experiments by an automatic …