Iron-sulfur protein biogenesis in eukaryotes: Components and mechanisms

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 22, Issue , 2006, Pages 457-486

  Lill, Roland ^a   Mühlenhoff, Ulrich ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

ABC proteins; Chaperones; Cysteine desulfurase; Ferredoxin; P loop ATPase

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; CHAPERONE; CYSTATHIONINE GAMMA LYASE; FERREDOXIN; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN;

BIOGENESIS; CYTOSOL; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EUBACTERIUM; EUKARYOTE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; FERREDOXIN-NADP REDUCTASE; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

EID: 33751177803     PISSN: 10810706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.cellbio.22.010305.104538     Document Type: Review

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