[4Fe-4S] Cluster Assembly in Mitochondria and Its Impairment by Copper

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• 作者：Diego Brancaccio ; Angelo Gallo ; Mario Piccioli ; Ettore Novellino ; Simone Ciofi-Baffoni ; Lucia Banci
• 刊名：Journal of the American Chemical Society
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 18, 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：139
• 期：2
• 页码：719-730
• 全文大小：827K
• ISSN：1520-5126

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The cellular toxicity of copper is usually associated with its ability to generate reactive oxygen species. However, recent studies in bacterial organisms showed that copper toxicity is also strictly connected to iron–sulfur cluster proteins and to their assembly processes. Mitochondria of eukaryotic cells contain a labile copper(I) pool localized in the matrix where also the mitochondrial iron–sulfur (Fe/S) cluster assembly machinery resides to mature mitochondrial Fe/S cluster-containing proteins. Misregulation of copper homeostasis might therefore damage mitochondrial Fe/S protein maturation. To describe, from a molecular perspective, the effects of copper(I) toxicity on such a maturation process, we have here investigated the still unknown mechanism of [4Fe-4S] cluster formation conducted by the mitochondrial ISCA1/ISCA2 and GLRX5 proteins, and defined how copper(I) can impair this process. The molecular model here proposed indicates that the copper(I) and Fe/S protein maturation cellular pathways need to be strictly regulated to avoid copper(I) ion from blocking mitochondrial [4Fe-4S] protein maturation.