Cellular regulation of the iron-responsive element binding protein: disassembly of the cubane iron-sulfur cluster results in high-affinity RNA binding.
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Haile, D J
RESUMO
The translation of ferritin mRNA and degradation of transferrin receptor mRNA are regulated by the interaction of an RNA-binding protein, the iron-responsive element binding protein (IRE-BP), with RNA stem-loop structures known as iron-responsive elements (IREs) contained within these transcripts. IRE-BP produced in iron-replete cells has aconitase (EC 4.2.1.3) activity. The protein shows extensive sequence homology with mitochondrial aconitase, and sequences of peptides prepared from cytosolic aconitase are identical with peptides of IRE-BP. As an active aconitase, IRE-BP is expected to have an Fe-S cluster, in analogy to other aconitases. This Fe-S cluster has been implicated as the region of the protein that senses intracellular iron levels and accordingly modifies the ability of the IRE-BP to interact with IREs. Expression of the IRE-BP in cultured cells has revealed that the IRE-BP functions either as an active aconitase, when the cells are iron-replete, or as an active RNA-binding protein, when the cells are iron-depleted. We compare properties of purified authentic cytosolic aconitase from beef liver with those of IRE-BP from tissue culture cells and establish that characteristics of the physiologically relevant form of the protein from iron-depleted cells resemble those of cytosolic aconitase apoprotein. We demonstrate that loss of the labile fourth iron atom of the Fe-S cluster results in loss of aconitase activity, but that more extensive cluster alteration is required before the IRE-BP acquires the capacity to bind RNA with the affinity seen in vivo. These results are consistent with a model in which the cubane Fe-S cluster is disassembled when intracellular iron is depleted.
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