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- Title
Towards a metabolomic approach to investigate iron–sulfur cluster biogenesis.
- Authors
Marengo, Mauro; Fissore, Alex; Oliaro‐Bosso, Simonetta; Adinolfi, Salvatore; Pastore, Annalisa
- Abstract
Iron–sulfur clusters are prosthetic groups that are assembled on their acceptor proteins through a complex machine centered on a desulfurase enzyme and a transient scaffold protein. Studies to establish the mechanism of cluster formation have so far used either in vitro or in vivo methods, which have often resulted in contrasting or non‐comparable results. We suggest, here, an alternative approach to study the enzymatic reaction, that is based on the combination of genetically engineered bacterial strains depleted of specific components, and the detection of the enzymatic kinetics in cellular extracts through metabolomics. Our data prove that this ex vivo approach closely reproduces the in vitro results while retaining the full complexity of the system. We demonstrate that co‐presence of bacterial frataxin and iron is necessary to observe an inhibitory effect of the enzymatic activity of bacterial frataxin. Our approach provides a new powerful tool for the study of iron–sulfur cluster biogenesis.
- Subjects
SCAFFOLD proteins; FRIEDREICH'S ataxia; FRATAXIN; IRON; SIMPLE machines; METABOLOMICS
- Publication
IUBMB Life, 2022, Vol 74, Issue 7, p715
- ISSN
1521-6543
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/iub.2618