Wednesday, February 10, 2010

New hope in hunt for ataxia cure

theage.com.au
6:22AM Thu February 11, 2010
NICK MILLER -february 11, 2010  
Teams from the University of Melbourne and the Monash Institute of Medical Research have made pluripotent stem cells from the skin of FA sufferers, .....read more

Frataxin, a molecule of mystery: trading stability for function in its iron-binding site

Biochem. J. (2010) 426 (e1–e3) (Printed in Great Britain)

Darius J. R. Lane* and Des R. Richardson†1
*Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, 3800, Australia, and †Department of Pathology and Bosch Institute, Iron Metabolism and Chelation Program, Blackburn Building, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, 2006, Australia
 
Key words: frataxin, Friedreich's ataxia (FRDA), iron–sulfur cluster, Isu protein, mitochondrion, yeast frataxin (Yfh1).