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Ancient and essential: the assembly of iron–sulfur clusters in plants

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In plants iron-sulfur (Fe-S) proteins are found in the plastids, mitochondria, cytosol and nucleus, where they are essential for numerous physiological and developmental processes.
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This article is published in Trends in Plant Science.The article was published on 2011-04-01. It has received 283 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Iron–sulfur cluster & Scaffold protein.

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An Overview of Selenium Uptake, Metabolism, and Toxicity in Plants.

TL;DR: Plants can play vital role in overcoming Se deficiency and Se toxicity in different regions of the world, hence, detailed mechanism of Se metabolism inside the plants is necessary for designing effective Se phytoremediation and biofortification strategies.
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Iron/sulfur proteins biogenesis in prokaryotes: formation, regulation and diversity.

TL;DR: Basic principles and recent advances in the understanding of the prokaryotic Fe/S biogenesis ISC and SUF systems are reviewed and an effort was made to provide, based on the E. coli system, a general classification associating a given domain with a given function to help next search and annotation of genomes.
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Trace metal metabolism in plants.

TL;DR: This review covers most of these aspects for the essential micronutrients copper, iron, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, and zinc to provide a broader overview than found in other recent reviews, to cross-link aspects of knowledge in this very active research field.
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Iron cofactor assembly in plants.

TL;DR: Increased understanding of intracellular iron trafficking is opening up research into how iron is distributed between iron cofactor assembly pathways and how this distribution is regulated.
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Function and biogenesis of iron–sulphur proteins

TL;DR: This work has shown that different biogenesis machineries in both bacteria and eukaryotes have been discovered that assist Fe–S-protein maturation according to uniform biosynthetic principles.
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Earth's earliest biosphere : its origin and evolution

TL;DR: The Description for this book, Earth's Earliest Biosphere: Its Origin and Evolution, will be forthcoming.
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Assembly of Iron-Sulfur Clusters: IDENTIFICATION OF AN iscSUA-hscBA-fdx GENE CLUSTER FROM AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII

TL;DR: In this paper, microsequencing of oligopeptides obtained by tryptic digestion of purified IscS was used to design a strategy for isolation and DNA sequence analysis of a 7,886-base pair A. vinelandii genomic segment that includes the iscS gene.
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Iron-sulfur proteins: ancient structures, still full of surprises.

TL;DR: This article is a survey of the properties and functions of Fe-S proteins under the following headings: sulfur and iron; iron-sulfur clusters; evolution of cofactor use; early observations; complex and extended clusters.
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