2010年
Iron-Sulfur World in Aerobic and Hyperthermoacidophilic Archaea Sulfolobus
ARCHAEA-AN INTERNATIONAL MICROBIOLOGICAL JOURNAL
- 巻
- 2010
- 号
- 開始ページ
- pii: 842639
- 終了ページ
- (14 pages, Review)
- 記述言語
- 英語
- 掲載種別
- DOI
- 10.1155/2010/842639
- 出版者・発行元
- HINDAWI LTD
The general importance of the Fe-S cluster prosthetic groups in biology is primarily attributable to specific features of iron and sulfur chemistry, and the assembly and interplay of the Fe-S cluster core with the surrounding protein is the key to in-depth understanding of the underlying mechanisms. In the aerobic and thermoacidophilic archaea, zinc-containing ferredoxin is abundant in the cytoplasm, functioning as a key electron carrier, and many Fe-S enzymes are produced to participate in the central metabolic and energetic pathways. De novo formation of intracellular Fe-S clusters does not occur spontaneously but most likely requires the operation of a SufBCD complex of the SUF machinery, which is the only Fe-S cluster biosynthesis system conserved in these archaea. In this paper, a brief introduction to the buildup and maintenance of the intracellular Fe-S world in aerobic and hyperthermoacidophilic crenarchaeotes, mainly Sulfolobus, is given in the biochemical, genetic, and evolutionary context.
- リンク情報
- ID情報
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- DOI : 10.1155/2010/842639
- ISSN : 1472-3646
- eISSN : 1472-3654
- PubMed ID : 20885930
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000288791100001