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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
7053
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-8-18
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
Iron is required to produce haem and iron-sulphur (Fe-S) clusters, processes thought to occur independently. Here we show that the hypochromic anaemia in shiraz (sir) zebrafish mutants is caused by deficiency of glutaredoxin 5 (grx5), a gene required in yeast for Fe-S cluster assembly. We found that grx5 was expressed in erythroid cells of zebrafish and mice. Zebrafish grx5 rescued the assembly of grx5 yeast Fe-S, showing that the biochemical function of grx5 is evolutionarily conserved. In contrast to yeast, vertebrates use iron regulatory protein 1 (IRP1) to sense intracellular iron and regulate mRNA stability or the translation of iron metabolism genes. We found that loss of Fe-S cluster assembly in sir animals activated IRP1 and blocked haem biosynthesis catalysed by aminolaevulinate synthase 2 (ALAS2). Overexpression of ALAS2 RNA without the 5' iron response element that binds IRP1 rescued sir embryos, whereas overexpression of ALAS2 including the iron response element did not. Further, antisense knockdown of IRP1 restored sir embryo haemoglobin synthesis. These findings uncover a connection between haem biosynthesis and Fe-S clusters, indicating that haemoglobin production in the differentiating red cell is regulated through Fe-S cluster assembly.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
1476-4687
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
18
pubmed:volume
436
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1035-39
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:16110529-5-Aminolevulinate Synthetase, pubmed-meshheading:16110529-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:16110529-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:16110529-Cloning, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:16110529-Erythrocytes, pubmed-meshheading:16110529-Gene Expression Regulation, pubmed-meshheading:16110529-Glutaredoxins, pubmed-meshheading:16110529-Heme, pubmed-meshheading:16110529-Homeostasis, pubmed-meshheading:16110529-Iron, pubmed-meshheading:16110529-Iron Regulatory Protein 1, pubmed-meshheading:16110529-Iron-Sulfur Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:16110529-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:16110529-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:16110529-Oxidoreductases, pubmed-meshheading:16110529-Response Elements, pubmed-meshheading:16110529-Saccharomyces cerevisiae, pubmed-meshheading:16110529-Zebrafish
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
Deficiency of glutaredoxin 5 reveals Fe-S clusters are required for vertebrate haem synthesis.
pubmed:affiliation
Stem Cell Program and Division Hematology/Oncology Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural