| Literature DB >> 1946430 |
S Kaptain1, W E Downey, C Tang, C Philpott, D Haile, D G Orloff, J B Harford, T A Rouault, R D Klausner.
Abstract
A clone for the iron-responsive element (IRE)-binding protein (IRE-BP) has been transfected and expressed in mouse fibroblasts. The IRE-BP gene product binds IREs with high affinity and specificity. Amino acid alignments reveal that the IRE-BP is 30% identical to mitochondrial aconitase. The 18 active site residues of mitochondrial aconitase are identical to those in the IRE-BP, suggesting that the IRE-BP may possess aconitase activity. After purification of native IRE-BP and immunoaffinity purification of transfected and expressed IRE-BP, we demonstrate that the purified IRE-BP has aconitase activity.Entities:
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Year: 1991 PMID: 1946430 PMCID: PMC52877 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.88.22.10109
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ISSN: 0027-8424 Impact factor: 11.205