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ArticleMethods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)2021

Methods to Investigate the Kinetic Profile of Cysteine Desulfurases.

Maame A Addo, Ashley M Edwards, Patricia C Dos Santos

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Article in Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
4.7field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Maame A AddoDepartment of Chemistry, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
Ashley M EdwardsDepartment of Chemistry, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
Patricia C Dos SantosDepartment of Chemistry, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA. dossanpc@wfu.edu.
Wake Forest University · US

Funding

Structural and Computational Biophysics Training ProgramT32GM095440 · NIGMS · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI HOLLIS, THOMAS J, LYLES, DOUGLAS S. · 2011 to 2020
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NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM095440
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biological iron-sulfur (Fe-S) clusters are essential protein prosthetic groups that promote a range of biochemical reactions. In vivo, these clusters are synthesized by specialized protein machineries involved in sulfur mobilization, cluster assembly, and cluster transfer to their target proteins. Cysteine desulfurases initiate the first step of sulfur activation and mobilization in cluster biosynthetic pathways. The reaction catalyzed by these enzymes involves the abstraction of sulfur from the amino acid L-cysteine, with concomitant formation of alanine. The presence and availability of a sulfur acceptor modulate the sulfurtransferase activity of this class of enzymes by altering their reaction profile and catalytic turnover rate. Herein, we describe two methods used to probe the reaction profile of cysteine desulfurases through quantification of alanine and sulfide production in these reactions.

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AlanineCarbon-Sulfur LyasesCysteineIron-Sulfur ProteinsKineticsSulfurAlanineCarbon-Sulfur LyasesCysteinecysteine desulfuraseIron-Sulfur ProteinsSulfurAlanineCysteine desulfuraseFe-S clustersMethylene blueNDASulfideSulfur acceptor

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PMID34292550
PMCPMC8637549
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