Mitochondria and Iron: current questions

BT Paul, DH Manz, FM Torti, SV Torti - Expert review of hematology, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Mitochondria are cellular organelles that perform numerous bioenergetic,
biosynthetic, and regulatory functions and play a central role in iron metabolism …

Biogenesis of iron-sulfur clusters in mammalian cells: new insights and relevance to human disease

TA Rouault - Disease models & mechanisms, 2012 - journals.biologists.com
Iron-sulfur (Fe-S) clusters are ubiquitous cofactors composed of iron and inorganic sulfur.
They are required for the function of proteins involved in a wide range of activities, including …

[HTML][HTML] Iron–sulfur cluster biogenesis in mammalian cells: new insights into the molecular mechanisms of cluster delivery

N Maio, TA Rouault - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular Cell …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Iron–sulfur (Fe–S) clusters are ancient, ubiquitous cofactors composed of iron and
inorganic sulfur. The combination of the chemical reactivity of iron and sulfur, together with …

Biogenesis and functions of mammalian iron-sulfur proteins in the regulation of iron homeostasis and pivotal metabolic pathways

TA Rouault, N Maio - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2017 - ASBMB
Fe-S cofactors are composed of iron and inorganic sulfur in various stoichiometries. A
complex assembly pathway conducts their initial synthesis and subsequent binding to …

Iron–sulfur proteins in health and disease

A Sheftel, O Stehling, R Lill - Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2010 - cell.com
Iron–sulfur (Fe/S) proteins are a class of ubiquitous components that assist in vital and
diverse biochemical tasks in virtually every living cell. These tasks include respiration, iron …

Cochaperone binding to LYR motifs confers specificity of iron sulfur cluster delivery

N Maio, A Singh, H Uhrigshardt, N Saxena, WH Tong… - Cell metabolism, 2014 - cell.com
Iron sulfur (Fe-S) clusters, preassembled on the ISCU scaffold, are transferred to target
proteins or to intermediate scaffolds by a dedicated chaperone-cochaperone system …

Protein networks in the maturation of human iron–sulfur proteins

S Ciofi-Baffoni, V Nasta, L Banci - Metallomics, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The biogenesis of iron–sulfur (Fe–S) proteins in humans is a multistage process occurring in
different cellular compartments. The mitochondrial iron–sulfur cluster (ISC) assembly …

The indispensable role of mammalian iron sulfur proteins in function and regulation of multiple diverse metabolic pathways

TA Rouault - Biometals, 2019 - Springer
In recent years, iron sulfur (Fe–S) proteins have been identified as key players in
mammalian metabolism, ranging from long-known roles in the respiratory complexes and …

The interactions of molecular chaperones with client proteins: why are they so weak?

T Arhar, A Shkedi, CM Nadel, JE Gestwicki - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2021 - ASBMB
The major classes of molecular chaperones have highly variable sequences, sizes, and
shapes, yet they all bind to unfolded proteins, limit their aggregation, and assist in their …

Normal mode analysis as a routine part of a structural investigation

JA Bauer, J Pavlović, V Bauerová-Hlinková - Molecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
Normal mode analysis (NMA) is a technique that can be used to describe the flexible states
accessible to a protein about an equilibrium position. These states have been shown …