Monday, November 29, 2010

The mitochondrial protein frataxin is essential for heme biosynthesis in plants

FEBS Journal, Accepted Article (Accepted, unedited articles published online for future issues)
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2010.07968.x

María V. Maliandi1, Maria V. Busi2, Valeria R. Turowski2, Laura Leaden2, Alejandro Araya3, Diego F. Gomez-Casati2.

# 1 Instituto de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas-Instituto Tecnológico de Chascomús (IIB-INTECH) CONICET/UNSAM, Chascomús, Argentina.# 2 Centro de Estudios Fotosintéticos y Bioquímicos (CEFOBI-CONICET), Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina. # 3 Microbiologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire et Pathogénicité.Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Université Victor Segalen-Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux, France.

Keywords: Frataxin, mitochondrial protein, cellular iron homeostasis, Fe–S cluster, heme biosynthesis, photosynthetic organisms, aconitase, succinate dehydrogenase, AtFH. heme content.