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Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Mitochondrial Proteins > Frataxin
... > Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Carrier Proteins > Iron-Binding Proteins > Nonheme Iron Proteins > Iron-Sulfur Proteins > Frataxin
... > Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Metalloproteins > Iron-Binding Proteins > Nonheme Iron Proteins > Iron-Sulfur Proteins > Frataxin

Preferred term

Frataxin  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Ataxia Protein, Friedreich
  • Frataxin, FXN
  • Frataxin Protein
  • Friedreich Ataxia Protein
  • FXN Frataxin
  • Protein, Frataxin
  • Protein, Friedreich Ataxia

Scope note

  • A protein involved in the transfer of iron and sulfur to iron-sulfur cluster (ISC) assembly complex for de novo synthesis of a [2Fe-2S] cluster, the first step of the mitochondrial iron-sulfur protein biogenesis. Deficiency leads to the neurodegenerative disease FRIEDREICH ATAXIA.

History note

  • 2024 (1996)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000096923

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