Human mitochondrial ferritin improves respiratory function in yeast mutants deficient in iron-sulfur cluster biogenesis, but is not a functional homologue of yeast frataxin.

Human mitochondrial ferritin improves respiratory function in yeast mutants deficient in iron-sulfur cluster biogenesis, but is not a functional homologue of yeast frataxin.Sutak R, Seguin A, Garcia-Serres R, Oddou JL, Dancis A, Tachezy J, Latour JM, Camadro JM, Lesuisse E.; Microbiologyopen. 2012 Jun;1(2):95-104.

Keywords: human mitochondrial ferritin, frataxin-deficient yeast cells (Δyfh1), mitochondrial iron, insoluble particles of ferric phosphate, deficient in [Fe-S] assembly, functional homologue.