PMID:15964837
| Citation |
Bonomi, F, Iametti, S, Ta, D and Vickery, LE (2005) Multiple turnover transfer of [2Fe2S] clusters by the iron-sulfur cluster assembly scaffold proteins IscU and IscA. J. Biol. Chem. 280:29513-8 |
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| Abstract |
IscU/Isu and IscA/Isa (and related NifU and SufA proteins) have been proposed to serve as molecular scaffolds for preassembly of [FeS] clusters to be used in the biogenesis of iron-sulfur proteins. In vitro studies demonstrating transfer of preformed scaffold-[FeS] complexes to apoprotein acceptors have provided experimental support for this hypothesis, but investigations to date have yielded only single-cluster transfer events. We describe an in vitro assay system that allows for real-time monitoring of [FeS] cluster formation using circular dichroism spectroscopy and use this to investigate de novo [FeS] cluster formation and transfer from Escherichia coli IscU and IscA to apo-ferredoxin. Both IscU and IscA were found to be capable of multiple cycles of [2Fe2S] cluster formation and transfer suggesting that these scaffold proteins are capable of acting "catalytically." Kinetic studies further showed that cluster transfer exhibits Michaelis-Menten behavior indicative of complex formation of holo-IscU and holo-IscA with apoferredoxin and consistent with a direct [FeS] cluster transfer mechanism. Analysis of the dependence of the rate of cluster transfer, however, revealed enhanced efficiency at low ratios of scaffold to acceptor protein suggesting participation of a transient, labile scaffold-[FeS] species in the transfer process. |
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PubMed Online version:10.1074/jbc.M504344200 |
| Keywords |
Carrier Proteins/chemistry; Carrier Proteins/metabolism; Catalysis; Circular Dichroism; Escherichia coli Proteins/chemistry; Escherichia coli Proteins/metabolism; Ferredoxins/metabolism; Iron-Sulfur Proteins/chemistry; Iron-Sulfur Proteins/metabolism |
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