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
ISCU-like 2 (ISU2); 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: SufE/NifU family protein (TAIR:AT4G22220.1); Has 5480 Blast hits to 5480 proteins in 1991 species: Archae - 108; Bacteria - 3649; Metazoa - 148; Fungi - 153; Plants - 89; Viruses - 0; Other Eukaryotes - 1333 (source: NCBI BLink).