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Extra-mitochondrial localisation of frataxin and its association with IscU1 during enterocyte-like differentiation of the human colon adenocarcinoma cell line Caco-2.

Abstract：

:Friedreich's ataxia is a recessive neurodegenerative disease due to insufficient expression of the mitochondrial protein frataxin. Although it has been shown that frataxin is involved in the control of intracellular iron metabolism, by interfering with the mitochondrial biosynthesis of proteins with iron/sulphur (Fe/S) clusters its role has not been well established. We studied frataxin protein and mRNA expression and localisation during cellular differentiation. We used the human colon adenocarcinoma cell line Caco-2, as it is considered a good model for intestinal epithelial differentiation and the study of intestinal iron metabolism. Here we report that the protein, but not the mRNA frataxin levels, increase during the enterocyte-like differentiation of Caco-2 cells, as well as in in-vivo-differentiated enterocytes at the upper half of the crypt-villus axis. Furthermore, subcellular fractionation and double immunostaining, followed by confocal analysis, reveal that frataxin localisation changes during Caco-2 cell differentiation. In particular, we found an extramitochondrial localisation of frataxin in differentiated cells. Finally, we demonstrate a physical interaction between extramitochondrial frataxin and IscU1, a cytoplasmic isoform of the human Fe/S cluster assembly machinery. Based on our data, we postulate that frataxin could be involved in the biosynthesis of iron-sulphur proteins not only within the mitochondria, but also in the extramitochondrial compartment. These findings might be of relevance for the understanding of both the pathogenesis of Friedreich's ataxia and the basic mechanism of Fe/S cluster biosynthesis.

journal_name

J Cell Sci

journal_title

Journal of cell science

authors

Acquaviva F,De Biase I,Nezi L,Ruggiero G,Tatangelo F,Pisano C,Monticelli A,Garbi C,Acquaviva AM,Cocozza S

doi

10.1242/jcs.02516

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pub_date

2005-09-01 00:00:00

pages

3917-24

issue

Pt 17

eissn

0021-9533

issn

1477-9137

pii

jcs.02516

journal_volume

118

pub_type

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Extra-mitochondrial localisation of frataxin and its association with IscU1 during enterocyte-like differentiation of the human colon adenocarcinoma cell line Caco-2.