Publication Date:
2004-07-13
Description:
Numerous degenerative disorders are associated with elevated levels of prooxidants and declines in mitochondrial aconitase activity. Deficiency in the mitochondrial iron-binding protein frataxin results in diminished activity of various mitochondrial iron-sulfur proteins including aconitase. We found that aconitase can undergo reversible citrate-dependent modulation in activity in response to pro-oxidants. Frataxin interacted with aconitase in a citrate-dependent fashion, reduced the level of oxidant-induced inactivation, and converted inactive [3Fe-4S]1+ enzyme to the active [4Fe-4S]2+ form of the protein. Thus, frataxin is an iron chaperone protein that protects the aconitase [4Fe-4S]2+ cluster from disassembly and promotes enzyme reactivation.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Bulteau, Anne-Laure -- O'Neill, Heather A -- Kennedy, Mary Claire -- Ikeda-Saito, Masao -- Isaya, Grazia -- Szweda, Luke I -- AG-15709/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- AG-16339/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- NRSA 44748/NR/NINR NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2004 Jul 9;305(5681):242-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15247478" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Aconitate Hydratase/antagonists & inhibitors/*metabolism
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Animals
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Citric Acid/metabolism/pharmacology
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Dithiothreitol/metabolism
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Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy
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Enzyme Activation
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Ferrous Compounds/metabolism
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Hydrogen Peroxide/pharmacology
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Iron/*metabolism
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Iron-Binding Proteins/*metabolism
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Male
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Mitochondria/*metabolism
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Mitochondria, Heart/*metabolism
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Molecular Chaperones/*metabolism
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Oxidation-Reduction
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Oxidative Stress
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Oxygen Consumption
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Rats
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Rats, Sprague-Dawley
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae/*metabolism
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/metabolism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
