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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
卷 281, 期 38, 页码 27956-27963出版社
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M601356200
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Increasing evidence suggests that sulfur in ubiquitous iron-sulfur clusters is derived from L-cysteine via cysteine desulfurases. In Escherichia coli, the major cysteine desulfurase activity for biogenesis of iron-sulfur clusters has been attributed to IscS. The gene that encodes IscS is a member of an operon iscSUA, which also encodes two highly conserved proteins: IscU and IscA. Previous studies suggested that both IscU and IscA may act as the iron-sulfur cluster assembly scaffold proteins. However, recent evidence indicated that IscA is an iron-binding protein that can provide iron for the iron-sulfur cluster assembly in IscU ( Ding, H., Harrison, K., and Lu, J. (2005) J. Biol. Chem. 280, 30432 - 30437). To further elucidate the function of IscA in biogenesis of iron-sulfur clusters, we evaluate the iron-sulfur cluster binding activity of IscA and IscU under physiologically relevant conditions. When equal amounts of IscA and IscU are incubated with an equivalent amount of ferrous iron in the presence of IscS, L-cysteine and dithiothreitol, iron-sulfur clusters are assembled in IscU, but not in IscA, suggesting that IscU is a preferred iron-sulfur cluster assembly scaffold protein. In contrast, when equal amounts of IscA and IscU are incubated with an equivalent amount of ferrous iron in the presence of IscS and dithiothreitol but without L-cysteine, nearly all iron is bound to IscA. The iron binding in IscA appears to prevent the formation of the biologically inaccessible ferric hydroxide under aerobic conditions. Subsequent addition of L-cysteine efficiently mobilizes the iron center in IscA and transfers the iron for the iron-sulfur cluster assembly in IscU. The results suggest an intriguing interplay between IscA and IscU in which IscA acts as an iron chaperon that recruits free iron and delivers the iron for biogenesis of iron-sulfur clusters in IscU under aerobic conditions.
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