Saturday, November 15, 2014

Fe-S cluster biogenesis in isolated mammalian mitochondria: coordinated use of persulfide sulfur and iron, and requirements for GTP, NADH, and ATP

Fe-S cluster biogenesis in isolated mammalian mitochondria: coordinated use of persulfide sulfur and iron, and requirements for GTP, NADH, and ATP . Alok Pandey, Jayashree Pain, Arnab K. Ghosh, Andrew Dancis and Debkumar Pain; J. Biol. Chem. jbc.M114.610402. First Published on November 14, 2014, doi:10.1074/jbc.M114.610402

The experimental system as described here may help to define the biochemical basis of diseases that are associated with impaired Fe-S cluster biogenesis in mitochondria such as Friedreich's ataxia.