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Peters JW, Szilagyi RK, Naumov A, Douglas T. A radical solution for the biosynthesis of the H-cluster of hydrogenase. FEBS Lett 2005; 580:363-7. [PMID: 16386249 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2005.12.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2005] [Revised: 12/06/2005] [Accepted: 12/06/2005] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
Fe-only or FeFe hydrogenases, as they have more recently been termed, possess a uniquely organometallic enzyme active site, termed the H-cluster, where the electronic properties of an iron-sulfur cluster are tuned with distinctly non-biological ligands, carbon monoxide and cyanide. Recently, it was discovered that radical S-adenosylmethionine enzymes were involved in active hydrogenase expression. In the current work, we present a mechanistic scheme for hydrogenase H-cluster biosynthesis in which both carbon monoxide and cyanide ligands can be derived from the decomposition of a glycine radical. The ideas presented have broader implications in the context of the prebiotic origin of amino acids.
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- John W Peters
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA.
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Wiedemann N, Urzica E, Guiard B, Müller H, Lohaus C, Meyer HE, Ryan MT, Meisinger C, Mühlenhoff U, Lill R, Pfanner N. Essential role of Isd11 in mitochondrial iron-sulfur cluster synthesis on Isu scaffold proteins. EMBO J 2005; 25:184-95. [PMID: 16341089 PMCID: PMC1356349 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7600906] [Citation(s) in RCA: 187] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2005] [Accepted: 11/15/2005] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Mitochondria are indispensable for cell viability; however, major mitochondrial functions including citric acid cycle and oxidative phosphorylation are dispensable. Most known essential mitochondrial proteins are involved in preprotein import and assembly, while the only known essential biosynthetic process performed by mitochondria is the biogenesis of iron-sulfur clusters (ISC). The components of the mitochondrial ISC-assembly machinery are derived from the prokaryotic ISC-assembly machinery. We have identified an essential mitochondrial matrix protein, Isd11 (YER048w-a), that is found in eukaryotes only. Isd11 is required for biogenesis of cellular Fe/S proteins and thus is a novel subunit of the mitochondrial ISC-assembly machinery. It forms a complex with the cysteine desulfurase Nfs1 and is required for formation of an Fe/S cluster on the Isu scaffold proteins. We conclude that Isd11 is an indispensable eukaryotic component of the mitochondrial machinery for biogenesis of Fe/S proteins.
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- Nils Wiedemann
- Institut für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Institut für Zytobiologie und Zytopathologie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Centre de Génétique Moléculaire, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Institut für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Medizinisches Proteom-Center, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany
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- Medizinisches Proteom-Center, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
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- Institut für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Institut für Zytobiologie und Zytopathologie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Institut für Zytobiologie und Zytopathologie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Institut für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- Institut für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie, Universität Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Strasse 7, 79104 Freiburg, Germany. Tel.: +49 761 203 5224; Fax: +49 761 203 5261; E-mail:
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Kitaoka S, Wada K, Hasegawa Y, Minami Y, Fukuyama K, Takahashi Y. Crystal structure of Escherichia coli SufC, an ABC-type ATPase component of the SUF iron-sulfur cluster assembly machinery. FEBS Lett 2005; 580:137-43. [PMID: 16364320 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2005.11.058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2005] [Revised: 11/24/2005] [Accepted: 11/24/2005] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
Abstract
SufC is an ATPase component of the SUF machinery, which is involved in the biosynthesis of Fe-S clusters. To gain insight into the function of this protein, we have determined the crystal structure of Escherichia coli SufC at 2.5A resolution. Despite the similarity of the overall structure with ABC-ATPases (nucleotide-binding domains of ABC transporters), some key differences were observed. Glu171, an invariant residue involved in ATP hydrolysis, is rotated away from the nucleotide-binding pocket to form a SufC-specific salt bridge with Lys152. Due to this salt bridge, D-loop that follows Glu171 is flipped out to the molecular surface, which may sterically inhibit the formation of an active dimer. Thus, the salt bridge may play a critical role in regulating ATPase activity and preventing wasteful ATP hydrolysis. Furthermore, SufC has a unique Q-loop structure on its surface, which may form a binding site for its partner proteins, SufB and/or SufD.
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- Shintaro Kitaoka
- Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
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Wada K, Hasegawa Y, Gong Z, Minami Y, Fukuyama K, Takahashi Y. Crystal structure of Escherichia coli SufA involved in biosynthesis of iron-sulfur clusters: implications for a functional dimer. FEBS Lett 2005; 579:6543-8. [PMID: 16298366 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2005.10.046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2005] [Revised: 10/19/2005] [Accepted: 10/25/2005] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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IscA and SufA are paralogous proteins that play crucial roles in the biosynthesis of Fe-S clusters, perhaps through a mechanism involving transient Fe-S cluster formation. We have determined the crystal structure of E. coli SufA at 2.7A resolution. SufA exists as a homodimer, in contrast to the tetrameric organization of IscA. Furthermore, a C-terminal segment containing two essential cysteine residues (Cys-Gly-Cys), which is disordered in the IscA structure, is clearly visible in one molecule (the alpha1 subunit) of the SufA homodimer. Although this segment is disordered in the other molecule (the alpha2 subunit), computer modeling of this segment based on the well-defined conformation of alpha1 subunit suggests that the four cysteine residues (Cys114 and Cys116 in each subunit) in the Cys-Gly-Cys motif are positioned in close proximity at the dimer interface. The arrangement of these cysteines together with the nearby Glu118 in SufA dimer may allow coordination of an Fe-S cluster and/or an Fe atom.
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- Kei Wada
- Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
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Fontecave M, Choudens SOD, Py B, Barras F. Mechanisms of iron-sulfur cluster assembly: the SUF machinery. J Biol Inorg Chem 2005; 10:713-21. [PMID: 16211402 DOI: 10.1007/s00775-005-0025-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2005] [Accepted: 08/23/2005] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Biosynthesis of iron-sulfur clusters is a cellular process which depends on complex protein machineries. Escherichia coli contains two such biosynthetic systems, ISC and SUF. In this review article we specifically make a presentation of the various Suf proteins and discuss the molecular mechanisms by which these proteins work together to assemble Fe and S atoms within a scaffold and to transfer the resulting cluster to target proteins.
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- M Fontecave
- Laboratoire de Chimie et Biochimie des Centres Rédox Biologiques, DRDC-CB, CEA/CNRS/Université Joseph Fourier, CEA-Grenoble, Grenoble Cedex 09, France.
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Brazzolotto X, Rubach JK, Gaillard J, Gambarelli S, Atta M, Fontecave M. The [Fe-Fe]-hydrogenase maturation protein HydF from Thermotoga maritima is a GTPase with an iron-sulfur cluster. J Biol Chem 2005; 281:769-74. [PMID: 16278209 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m510310200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The active site of [Fe-Fe]-hydrogenases is composed of a di-iron complex, where the two metal atoms are bridged together by a putative di(thiomethyl)amine molecule and are also ligated by di-nuclear ligands, namely carbon monoxide and cyanide. Biosynthesis of this metal site is thought to require specific protein machinery coded by the hydE, hydF, and hydG genes. The HydF protein has been cloned from the thermophilic organism Thermotoga maritima, purified, and characterized. The enzyme possesses specific amino acid signatures for GTP binding and is able to hydrolyze GTP. The anaerobically reconstituted TmHydF protein binds a [4Fe-4S] cluster with peculiar EPR characteristics: an S = 1/2 signal presenting a high field shifted g-value together with a S = 3/2 signal, similar to those observed for [4Fe-4S] clusters ligated by only three cysteines. HYSCORE spectroscopy experiments were carried out to determine the nature of the fourth ligand of the cluster, and its exchangeability was demonstrated with the formation of a [4Fe-4S]-imidazole complex.
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- Xavier Brazzolotto
- Laboratoire de Chimie et Biochimie des Centres Rédox Biologiques, UMR Université Joseph Fourier/CNRS/Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique-No. 5047, Grenoble, France
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Smith AD, Frazzon J, Dean DR, Johnson MK. Role of conserved cysteines in mediating sulfur transfer from IscS to IscU. FEBS Lett 2005; 579:5236-40. [PMID: 16165131 PMCID: PMC1360219 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2005.08.046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2005] [Revised: 08/04/2005] [Accepted: 08/15/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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The role of the three conserved cysteine residues on Azotobacter vinelandii IscU in accepting sulfane sulfur and forming a covalent complex with IscS has been evaluated using electrospray-ionization mass spectrometry studies of variants involving individual cysteine-to-alanine substitutions. The results reveal that IscS can transfer sulfur to each of the three alanine-substituted forms of IscU to yield persulfide or polysulfide species, and formation of a heterodisulfide covalent complex between IscS and Cys(37) on IscU. It is concluded that S transfer from IscS to IscU does not involve a specific cysteine on IscU or the formation of an IscS-IscU heterodisulfide complex.
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- Archer D. Smith
- Department of Chemistry and Center for Metalloenzyme Studies, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Metalloenzyme Studies, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
- Corresponding author. Fax: +1 706 542 2353., E-mail address: (M.K. Johnson)
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Almeida MS, Herrmann T, Peti W, Wilson IA, Wüthrich K. NMR structure of the conserved hypothetical protein TM0487 from Thermotoga maritima: implications for 216 homologous DUF59 proteins. Protein Sci 2005; 14:2880-6. [PMID: 16199668 PMCID: PMC2253223 DOI: 10.1110/ps.051755805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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The NMR structure of the conserved hypothetical protein TM0487 from Thermotoga maritima represents an alpha/beta-topology formed by the regular secondary structures alpha1-beta1-beta2-alpha2-beta3-beta4-alpha3- beta5-3(10)-alpha4, with a small anti-parallel beta-sheet of beta-strands 1 and 2, and a mixed parallel/anti-parallel beta-sheet of beta-strands 3-5. Similar folds have previously been observed in other proteins, with amino acid sequence identity as low as 3% and a variety of different functions. There are also 216 sequence homologs of TM0487, which all have the signature sequence of domains of unknown function 59 (DUF59), for which no three-dimensional structures have as yet been reported. The TM0487 structure thus presents a platform for homology modeling of this large group of DUF59 proteins. Conserved among most of the DUF59s are 13 hydrophobic residues, which are clustered in the core of TM0487. A putative active site of TM0487 consisting of residues D20, E22, L23, T51, T52, and C55 is conserved in 98 of the 216 DUF59 sequences. Asp20 is buried within the proposed active site without any compensating positive charge, which suggests that its pK(a) value may be perturbed. Furthermore, the DUF59 family includes ORFs that are part of a conserved chromosomal group of proteins predicted to be involved in Fe-S cluster metabolism.
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- Marcius S Almeida
- The Scripps Research Institute, Department of Molecular Biology and Joint Center for Structural Genomics, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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Balk J, Lobréaux S. Biogenesis of iron-sulfur proteins in plants. TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2005; 10:324-31. [PMID: 15951221 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2005.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2005] [Revised: 04/07/2005] [Accepted: 05/26/2005] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
Abstract
Iron-sulfur (Fe-S) clusters are ubiquitous prosthetic groups required to sustain fundamental life processes. The assembly of Fe-S clusters and insertion into polypeptides in vivo has recently become an area of intense research. Many of the genes involved are conserved in bacteria, fungi, animals and plants. Plant cells can carry out both photosynthesis and respiration - two processes that require significant amounts of Fe-S proteins. Recent findings now suggest that both plastids and mitochondria are capable of assembling Fe-S proteins using assembly machineries that differ in biochemical properties, genetic make-up and evolutionary origin.
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- Janneke Balk
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, UK CB2 3EA.
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Lin PC, Puhar A, Türk K, Piligkos S, Bill E, Neese F, Steuber J. A Vertebrate-type Ferredoxin Domain in the Na+-translocating NADH Dehydrogenase from Vibrio cholerae. J Biol Chem 2005; 280:22560-3. [PMID: 15870079 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.c500171200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The Na(+)-translocating NADH:quinone oxidoreductase from Vibrio cholerae contains a single Fe-S cluster localized in subunit NqrF. Here we study the electronic properties of the Fe-S center in a truncated version of the NqrF subunit comprising only its ferredoxin-like Fe-S domain. Mössbauer spectroscopy of the Fe-S domain in the oxidized state is consistent with a binuclear Fe-S cluster with tetrahedral sulfur coordination by the cysteine residues Cys(70), Cys(76), Cys(79), and Cys(111). Important sequence motifs surrounding these cysteines are conserved in the Fe-S domain and in vertebrate-type ferredoxins. The magnetic circular dichroism spectra of the photochemically reduced Fe-S domain exhibit a striking similarity to the magnetic circular dichroism spectra of vertebrate-type ferredoxins required for the in vivo assembly of iron-sulfur clusters. This study reveals a novel function for vertebrate-type [2Fe-2S] clusters as redox cofactors in respiratory dehydrogenases.
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- Po-Chi Lin
- Mikrobiologisches Institut der Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule, ETH-Hönggerberg, Zürich, Switzerland
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Loiseau L, Ollagnier-de Choudens S, Lascoux D, Forest E, Fontecave M, Barras F. Analysis of the heteromeric CsdA-CsdE cysteine desulfurase, assisting Fe-S cluster biogenesis in Escherichia coli. J Biol Chem 2005; 280:26760-9. [PMID: 15901727 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m504067200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Biogenesis of iron-sulfur (Fe-S) cluster-containing proteins relies on assistance of complex machineries. To date three systems, NIF, ISC, and SUF, were reported to allow maturation of Fe-S proteins. Here we report that the csdA-csdE (formally ygdK) genes of Escherichia coli constitute a sulfur-generating system referred to as CSD which also contributes to Fe-S biogenesis in vivo. This conclusion was reached by applying a thorough combination of both in vivo and in vitro strategies and techniques. Yeast two-hybrid analysis allowed us to show that CsdA and CsdE interact. Enzymology analysis showed that CsdA cysteine desulfurase activity is increased 2-fold in the presence of CsdE. Mass spectrometry analysis and site-directed mutagenesis showed that residue Cys-61 from CsdE acted as an acceptor site for sulfur provided by cysteine desulfurase activity of CsdA. Genetic investigations revealed that the csdA-csdE genes could act as multicopy suppressors of iscS mutation. Moreover, both in vitro and in vivo investigations pointed to a specific connection between the CSD system and quinolinate synthetase NadA.
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- Laurent Loiseau
- Laboratoire de Chimie Bactérienne, UPR-CNRS 9043, Institut de Biologie Structurale et Microbiologie, 31 Chemin Joseph Aiguier, 13402 Marseille Cedex 20, France
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