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| العنوان: |
Spontaneous assembly of redox-active iron-sulfur clusters at low concentrations of cysteine. |
| المؤلفون: |
Jordan, Sean F., Ioannou, Ioannis, Rammu, Hanadi, Halpern, Aaron, Bogart, Lara K., Ahn, Minkoo, Vasiliadou, Rafaela, Christodoulou, John, Maréchal, Amandine, Lane, Nick |
| المصدر: |
Nature Communications; 10/11/2021, Vol. 12 Issue 1, p1-14, 14p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
CYSTEINE, CHARGE exchange, ORIGIN of life, IRON clusters, BICARBONATE ions, HYDROTHERMAL vents |
| مستخلص: |
Iron-sulfur (FeS) proteins are ancient and fundamental to life, being involved in electron transfer and CO2 fixation. FeS clusters have structures similar to the unit-cell of FeS minerals such as greigite, found in hydrothermal systems linked with the origin of life. However, the prebiotic pathway from mineral surfaces to biological clusters is unknown. Here we show that FeS clusters form spontaneously through interactions of inorganic Fe2+/Fe3+ and S2− with micromolar concentrations of the amino acid cysteine in water at alkaline pH. Bicarbonate ions stabilize the clusters and even promote cluster formation alone at concentrations >10 mM, probably through salting-out effects. We demonstrate robust, concentration-dependent formation of [4Fe4S], [2Fe2S] and mononuclear iron clusters using UV-Vis spectroscopy, 57Fe-Mössbauer spectroscopy and 1H-NMR. Cyclic voltammetry shows that the clusters are redox-active. Our findings reveal that the structures responsible for biological electron transfer and CO2 reduction could have formed spontaneously from monomers at the origin of life. Iron-sulfur (FeS) proteins are involved in electron transfer and CO2 fixation. Here, the authors show that FeS clusters can form spontaneously in the presence of the amino acid cysteine, in conditions similar those expected in Hadean alkaline hydrothermal vents, suggesting a plausible mechanism of their emergence at the origin of life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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