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STRUCTURE, FUNCTION, AND FORMATION OF BIOLOGICAL IRON-SULFUR CLUSTERS

Johnson, Deborah C., Dean, Dennis R., Smith, Archer D., Johnson, Michael K.·2005·Annual Review of Biochemistry

DOI 10.1146/annurev.biochem.74.082803.133518

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Iron-sulfur [Fe-S] clusters are ubiquitous and evolutionary ancient prosthetic groups that are required to sustain fundamental life processes. Owing to their remarkable structural plasticity and versatile chemical/electronic features [Fe-S] clusters participate in electron transfer, substrate binding/activation, iron/sulfur storage, regulation of gene expression, and enzyme activity. Formation of intracellular [Fe-S] clusters does not occur spontaneously but requires a complex biosynthetic machinery. Three different types of [Fe-S] cluster biosynthetic systems have been discovered, and all of them are mechanistically unified by the requirement for a cysteine desulfurase and the participation of an [Fe-S] cluster scaffolding protein. Important mechanistic questions related to [Fe-S] cluster biosynthesis involve the molecular details of how [Fe-S] clusters are assembled on scaffold proteins, how [Fe-S] clusters are transferred from scaffolds to target proteins, how various accessory proteins participate in [Fe-S] protein maturation, and how the biosynthetic process is regulated.

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Authors: Johnson, D. C., Dean, D. R., Smith, A. D., & Johnson, M. K.
Affiliations: Virginia Tech (US)
University of Georgia (US)
ORCID: Dean, Dennis R.
Venue: Annual Review of Biochemistry
Publisher: Annual Reviews
Published: 2005-06-01
Volume: 74
Issue: 1
Pages: 247-281
ISSN: 0066-4154 (ISSN-L)
1545-4509
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biochem.74.082803.133518
OpenAlex: W2116472408
Cited by: 1,438
References: 209
Citations by year: 2026: 48 · 2025: 68 · 2024: 57 · 2023: 62 · 2022: 75 · 2021: 94 · 2020: 64 · 2019: 67 · 2018: 65 · 2017: 72 · 2016: 64 · 2015: 63 · 2014: 73 · 2013: 69 · 2012: 74
FWCI: 7.17
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Locations: Annual Review of Biochemistry (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders: National Institute of General Medical Sciences (GM62524)
Topics: Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Biochemistry › Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins
Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Structural Biology › Enzyme Structure and Function
Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Inorganic Chemistry › Inorganic Chemistry and Materials
Keywords: iron-sulfur clusters, Fe-S cluster biosynthesis, cysteine desulfurase, cluster assembly, protein maturation, electron transfer, prosthetic groups, gene expression regulation, enzyme activity
MeSH terms: Amino Acid Sequence, Bacterial Proteins, Carrier Proteins, Escherichia coli, Genes, Bacterial, Iron-Sulfur Proteins, Molecular Sequence Data, Nitrogenase, Protein Processing, Post-Translational, Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, Escherichia coli Proteins

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