Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10802005 | Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research | 2015 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
Since their discovery in the 50's, Fe-S cluster proteins have attracted much attention from chemists, biophysicists and biochemists. However, in the 80's they were joined by geneticists who helped to realize that in vivo maturation of Fe-S cluster bound proteins required assistance of a large number of factors defining complex multi-step pathways. The question of how clusters are formed and distributed in vivo has since been the focus of much effort. Here we review how genetics in discovering genes and investigating processes as they unfold in vivo has provoked seminal advances toward our understanding of Fe-S cluster biogenesis. The power and limitations of genetic approaches are discussed. As a final comment, we argue how the marriage of classic strategies and new high-throughput technologies should allow genetics of Fe-S cluster biology to be even more insightful in the future. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Fe/S proteins: Analysis, structure, function, biogenesis and diseases.
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Authors
Béatrice Py, Frédéric Barras,