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Turning Saccharomyces cerevisiae into a Frataxin-Independent Organism.
PLoS genetics - 1 May 2015
Yoon Heeyong, Knight Simon A B, Pandey Alok, Pain Jayashree, Turkarslan Serdar, Pain Debkumar, Dancis Andrew
Abstract excerpt
Frataxin (Yfh1 in yeast) is a conserved protein and deficiency leads to the neurodegenerative disease Friedreich's ataxia. Frataxin is a critical protein for Fe-S cluster assembly in mitochondria, interacting with other components of the Fe-S cluster machinery, including cysteine desulfurase Nfs1, Isd11 and the Isu1 scaffold protein. Yeast Isu1 with the methionine to isoleucine substitution (M141I), in which the...
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