Encodes a mitochondrial protein similar to E.coli IscU. In bacteria, IscU is a scaffold protein accepting sulfur and iron to build a transient Fe-S cluster,which is subsequently transferred to a target apoprotein.
Computational Description
ISU1; CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: NIF system FeS cluster assembly, NifU, N-terminal (InterPro:IPR002871), ISC system FeS cluster assembly, IscU scaffold (InterPro:IPR011339); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: ISCU-like 3 (TAIR:AT4G04080.1); Has 5453 Blast hits to 5453 proteins in 1998 species: Archae - 110; Bacteria - 3654; Metazoa - 148; Fungi - 154; Plants - 89; Viruses - 0; Other Eukaryotes - 1298 (source: NCBI BLink).