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Plant Physiology 138:161-172 (2005)
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BIOCHEMICAL PROCESSES AND MACROMOLECULAR STRUCTURES

Iron-Sulfur Cluster Biogenesis in Chloroplasts. Involvement of the Scaffold Protein CpIscA1

Salah E. Abdel-Ghany, Hong Ye, Gulnara F. Garifullina, Lihong Zhang, Elizabeth A.H. Pilon-Smits and Marinus Pilon*

Biology Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523

The chloroplast contains many iron (Fe)-sulfur (S) proteins for the processes of photosynthesis and nitrogen and S assimilation. Although isolated chloroplasts are known to be able to synthesize their own Fe-S clusters, the machinery involved is largely unknown. Recently, a cysteine desulfurase was reported in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana; AtCpNifS) that likely provides the S for Fe-S clusters. Here, we describe an additional putative component of the plastid Fe-S cluster assembly machinery in Arabidopsis: CpIscA, which has homology to bacterial IscA and SufA proteins that have a scaffold function during Fe-S cluster formation. CpIscA mRNA was shown to be expressed in all tissues tested, with higher expression level in green, photosynthetic tissues. The plastid localization of CpIscA was confirmed by green fluorescent protein fusions, in vitro import, and immunoblotting experiments. CpIscA was cloned and purified after expression in Escherichia coli. Addition of CpIscA significantly enhanced CpNifS-mediated in vitro reconstitution of the 2Fe-2S cluster in apo-ferredoxin. During incubation with CpNifS in a reconstitution mix, CpIscA was shown to acquire a transient Fe-S cluster. The Fe-S cluster could subsequently be transferred by CpIscA to apo-ferredoxin. We propose that the CpIscA protein serves as a scaffold in chloroplast Fe-S cluster assembly.

1 This work was supported by the National Research Initiative of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (grant no. 2003–35318–13758 to E.A.H.P.S and M.P.).

Article, publication date, and citation information can be found at www.plantphysiol.org/cgi/doi/10.1104/pp.104.058602.

* Corresponding author; e-mail pilon{at}lamar.colostate.edu; fax 970–491–0649.

Received December 17, 2004; returned for revision February 17, 2005; accepted February 23, 2005.




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