Tuesday, February 7, 2023

Redox sensitive human mitochondrial aconitase and its interaction with frataxin: In vitro and in silico studies confirm that it takes two to tango

Mansilla, S., Tórtora, V., Pignataro, F., Sastre, S., Castro, I., Chiribao, M. L., Robello, C., Zeida, A., Santos, J., & Castro, L. (2023). Redox sensitive human mitochondrial aconitase and its interaction with frataxin: In vitro and in silico studies confirm that it takes two to tango. Free radical biology & medicine, S0891-5849(23)00049-7. Advance online publication. doi:10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2023.01.028 

 Multimer modeling and protein-protein docking predicted an ACO2-FXN complex where the metal ion binding region of FXN approaches the [3Fe-4S]+ cluster, supporting that FXN is a partner for reactivation of ACO2 upon oxidative cluster inactivation.