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Abstract
Iron-sulphur (Fe-S) clusters have long been recognized as essential and versatile cofactors of proteins involved in catalysis, electron transport and sensing of ambient conditions. Despite the relative simplicity of Fe-S clusters in terms of structure and composition, their synthesis and assembly into apoproteins is a highly complex and coordinated process in living cells. Different biogenesis machineries in both bacteria and eukaryotes have been discovered that assist Fe-S-protein maturation according to uniform biosynthetic principles. The importance of Fe-S proteins for life is documented by an increasing number of diseases linked to these components and their biogenesis.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19675643 DOI: 10.1038/nature08301
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nature ISSN: 0028-0836 Impact factor: 49.962