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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2007

Chloroplast iron-sulfur cluster protein maturation requires the essential cysteine desulfurase CpNifS.

Douglas Van Hoewyk, Salah E Abdel-Ghany, Christopher M Cohu, Stephen K Herbert, Paul Kugrens, Marinus Pilon, Elizabeth A H Pilon-Smits

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30citing papers in PubMed
4.8field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
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30 citing papers in PubMed, 121 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Fe-S Protein Synthesis in Green Algae Mitochondria.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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  7. Regulation of Iron Homeostasis and Use in Chloroplasts.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020
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  9. The plastidialThe Journal of biological chemistry · 2020
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  12. Roles and maturation of iron-sulfur proteins in plastids.Journal of biological inorganic chemistry : JBIC : a publication of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry · 2018
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  15. Iron homeostasis in plants - a brief overview.Metallomics : integrated biometal science · 2017
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  20. Requirements of the cytosolic iron-sulfur cluster assembly pathway in Arabidopsis.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2013
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Douglas Van HoewykBiology Department and Program in Molecular Plant Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80526-1878, USA.
Salah E Abdel-Ghany
Christopher M Cohu
Stephen K Herbert
Paul Kugrens
Marinus Pilon
Elizabeth A H Pilon-Smits
Colorado State University · USUniversity of Wyoming · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

NifS-like proteins provide the sulfur (S) for the formation of iron-sulfur (Fe-S) clusters, an ancient and essential type of cofactor found in all three domains of life. Plants are known to contain two distinct NifS-like proteins, localized in the mitochondria (MtNifS) and the chloroplast (CpNifS). In the chloroplast, five different Fe-S cluster types are required in various proteins. These plastid Fe-S proteins are involved in a variety of biochemical pathways including photosynthetic electron transport and nitrogen and sulfur assimilation. In vitro, the chloroplastic cysteine desulfurase CpNifS can release elemental sulfur from cysteine for Fe-S cluster biogenesis in ferredoxin. However, because of the lack of a suitable mutant allele, the role of CpNifS has not been studied thus far in planta. To study the role of CpNifS in Fe-S cluster biogenesis in vivo, the gene was silenced by using an inducible RNAi (interference) approach. Plants with reduced CpNifS expression exhibited chlorosis, a disorganized chloroplast structure, and stunted growth and eventually became necrotic and died before seed set. Photosynthetic electron transport and carbon dioxide assimilation were severely impaired in the silenced plant lines. The silencing of CpNifS decreased the abundance of all chloroplastic Fe-S proteins tested, representing all five Fe-S cluster types. Mitochondrial Fe-S proteins and respiration were not affected, suggesting that mitochondrial and chloroplastic Fe-S assembly operate independently. These findings indicate that CpNifS is necessary for the maturation of all plastidic Fe-S proteins and, thus, essential for plant growth.

Indexed as

Gene Expression Regulation, PlantArabidopsisCarbon-Sulfur LyasesChlorophyllChloroplastsGene SilencingIron-Sulfur ProteinsMicroscopy, FluorescenceModels, GeneticOxygen ConsumptionPhenotypePhotosynthesisPlants, Genetically ModifiedRNA InterferenceCarbon-Sulfur LyasesChlorophyllcysteine desulfuraseIron-Sulfur Proteins

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PMID17372218
PMCPMC1838476
OpenAlexW2158177559

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