The Pathway Ontology (PW), is currently being developed at the Rat Genome Database. For more information about this vocabulary, please see Petri et al. The rat genome database pathway portal. Database (Oxford). 2011 Apr 8;2011:bar010. Print 2011 or contact us (http://rgd.mcw.edu/contact/index.shtml).
Term:
mitochondrial iron-sulfur cluster protein biogenesis pathway
The mitochondrial pathway consists of the synthesis of [2Fe-2S] clusters on scaffold proteins, cluster transfer and formation of mitochondrial [2Fe-2S] proteins, and the synthesis of 4Fe-4S] clusters and the formation of [4Fe-4S] proteins. The first two steps are required for the mitochondrial export and the biogenesis of cytosolic and nuclear Fe-S proteins. This arm of the pathway is usually referred to as the 'core'.