Two proteins that together serve as a scaffold for iron-sulfur cluster assembly in the yeast cytosol have been identified, providing the first mechanistic insight into cytosolic cluster assembly.
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Broderick, J. Assembling iron-sulfur clusters in the cytosol. Nat Chem Biol 3, 243–244 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchembio0507-243
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