NFU1 is a late-acting factor in the biogenesis of human mitochondrial iron-sulfur proteins. Mutations in NFU1 are associated with genetic diseases such as multiple mitochondrial dysfunctions syndrome 1 (MMDS1) that involve defects in mitochondrial [4Fe-4S] proteins. We present results from NMR spectroscopy, small angle X-ray scattering, size exclusion chromatography, and isothermal titration calorimetry showing that the structured conformer of human ISCU binds human NFU1. The dissociation constant determined by ITC is K = 1.1 ± 0.2 μM. NMR and SAXS studies led to a structural model for the complex in which the cluster binding region of ISCU interacts with two α-helices in the C-terminal domain of NFU1. In vitro experiments demonstrate that ISCU[4Fe-4S] transfers its Fe-S cluster to apo-NFU1, in the absence of a chaperone, leading to the assembly of holo-NFU1. By contrast, the cluster of ISCU[2Fe-2S] remains bound to ISCU in the presence of apo-NFU1.
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