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Iron-dependent degradation of apo-IRP1 by the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway.
Molecular and cellular biology - 1 Apr 2007
Wang Jian, Fillebeen Carine, Chen Guohua, Biederbick Annette, Lill Roland, Pantopoulos Kostas
Abstract excerpt
Iron regulatory protein 1 (IRP1) controls the translation or stability of several mRNAs by binding to "iron-responsive elements" within their untranslated regions. In iron-replete cells, IRP1 assembles a cubane iron-sulfur cluster (ISC) that inhibits RNA-binding activity and converts the protein to cytosolic aconitase. We show that the constitutive IRP1(C437S) mutant, which fails to form an ISC, is destabilized...
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