Journal
FEBS LETTERS
Volume 581, Issue 7, Pages 1362-1368Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2007.02.058
Keywords
biosynthesis; iron-sulfur cluster; mass spectrometry; Mossbauer spectroscopy; site-directed mutagenesis
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Iron-sulfur cluster biosynthesis depends on protein machineries, such as the ISC and SUF systems. The reaction is proposed to imply binding of sulfur and iron atoms and assembly of the cluster within a scaffold protein followed by transfer of the cluster to recipient apoproteins. The SufA protein from Escherichia coli, used here as a model scaffold protein is competent for binding sulfur atoms provided by the SufS-SufE cysteine desulfurase system covalently as shown by mass spectrometry. Investigation of site-directed mutants and peptide mapping experiments performed on digested sulfurated SufA demonstrate that binding exclusively occurs at the three conserved cysteines (cys50, cys114, cys116). In contrast, it binds iron only weakly (K-a = 5 X 10(5) M-1) and not specifically to the conserved cysteines as shown by Mossbauer spectroscopy. [Fe-S] clusters, characterized by Mossbauer spectroscopy, can be assembled during reaction of sulfurated SufA with ferrous iron in the presence of a source of electrons. (c) 2007 Federation of European Biochemical Societies. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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