Malcolm F White, Mark S Dillingham
Biomedical Sciences Research Complex, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9ST, UK. mfw2@st-andrews.ac.uk
Current opinion in structural biology 2012 FebSeveral unexpected reports of iron-sulphur clusters in nucleic acid binding proteins have recently appeared in the literature. Once thought to be relatively rare in these systems, iron-sulphur clusters are now known to be essential components of diverse nucleic acid processing machinery including glycosylases, primases, helicases, nucleases, transcription factors, RNA polymerases and RNA methyltransferases. In many cases, the function of the cluster is poorly understood and crystal structures of these iron-sulphur enzymes reveal little in common between them. In this article, we review the recent developments in the field and discuss to what extent there might exist common mechanistic roles for iron-sulphur clusters in nucleic acid enzymes. Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Malcolm F White, Mark S Dillingham. Iron-sulphur clusters in nucleic acid processing enzymes. Current opinion in structural biology. 2012 Feb;22(1):94-100
PMID: 22169085
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