Publications 1999-2000

62) Scharfe, C., Zaccaria, P., Hoertnagel, K., Jaksch, M., Klopstock, T., Lill, R., Prokisch, H., Gerbitz, K.D., Mewes, H.W., & Meitinger, T. MITOP: A database for mitochondria-related proteins, genes and diseases. (1999) Nucl. Acids Res. 27, 153-155. 

63) Lange, H., Kispal, G., & Lill, R. (1999).  Reconstitution of iron transport to the site of heme synthesis inside mitochondria. J. Biol. Chem. 274, 18989-18996. 

64) Kispal, G., Csere, P., Prohl, C., & Lill, R. (1999). The mitochondrial proteins Atm1p and Nfs1p are required for biogenesis of cytosolic Fe/S proteins EMBO J. 18, 3981-3989. 

65) Grad, L.I., Descheneau, A.T., Neupert, W., Lill, R., & Nargang, F.E. (1999). Inactivation of the Neurospora crassa mitochondrial outer membrane protein TOM70 by repeat induced point mutation (RIP) causes defects in mitochondrial protein import and morphology. Curr. Genetics 36, 137-146. 

66) Prohl, C., Kispal, G., & Lill, R. (1999). Branched-chain amino acid transaminases from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Methods Enzymol., 324, 365-375. 

67) Diekert, K., Kispal, G., Guiard, B. & Lill, R. (1999). A novel targeting signal directing proteins into the mitochondrial intermembrane space. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 96, 11752-11757. 

68) Lill, R., Diekert, K., Kaut, A., Lange, H., Pelzer, W., Prohl, C., & Kispal, G. (1999). The essential role of mitochondria in the biogenesis of cellular iron-sulfur proteins. Biol. Chem. 380, 1157-1166. 

69) Plesofsky, N., Gardner, N., Lill, R., & Brambl, R. (1999). Disruption of the gene for Hsp30, an ?-crystallin-related heat shock protein of Neurospora crassa, causes defects in import of proteins into mitochondria. Biol. Chem. 380, 1231-1236. 

70) Chinnery, P.F., Taylor, R.W., Diekert, K., Lill, R., Turnbull, D.M., & Lightowlers, R.N. (1999). Peptide Nucleic Acid delivery into human mitochondria. Gene Therapy 6, 1919-1928. 

71) Lange, H., Kaut, A., Kispal, G., & Lill, R. (2000). A mitochondrial ferredoxin is essential for biogenesis of intra- and extra-mitochondrial Fe/S proteins. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 97, 1050-1055. 

72) Scharfe, C., Zaccaria, P., Hoertnagel, K., Jaksch, M., Klopstock, T., Dembowski, M., Lill, R., Prokisch, H., Gerbitz, K.D., Neupert, W., Mewes, H.W., Meitinger, T.(2000). MITOP, the mitochondrial proteome database: 2000 update. Nucleic Acids Res. 28, 155-158. 

73) Rawls, J., Knecht, M., Diekert, K., Lill, R., & Löffler, M. (2000). Requirements for the mitochondrial import and localization of dihydroorotate dehydrogenase. Eur. J. Biochem. 267, 2079-2087. 

74) Lill, R. & Kispal, G. (2000). Maturation of cellular Fe/S proteins: An essential function of mitochondria. Trends Biochem. Sci. 25, 352-356. 

75) Kaut, A., Lange, H., Diekert, K., Kispal, G., & Lill, R. (2000). Isa1p is a component of the mitochondrial machinery for biogenesis of cellular Fe/S proteins and requires conserved cysteine residues for function. J. Biol. Chem. 275, 15955-15961. 

76) Mühlenhoff, U. & Lill, R. (2000). Biogenesis of iron-sulfur proteins in eukaryotes: A novel task of mitochondria that is inherited from bacteria. Biochem. Biophys. Acta 1459, 370-382. 

77) Bekri, S., Kispal, G., Lange, H., Fitzsimons, D., Lill,, R., & Bishop, D.F. (2000). The human ABC7 transporter: Gene structure and mutation in X-linked sideroblastic anemia with ataxia (XLSA/A) causing disruption of cytosolic iron-sulfur protein biogenesis. Blood 96, 3256-3264. 

78) Pelzer, W., Mühlenhoff, U., Diekert, K., Siegmund, K., Kispal, G., & Lill, R. (2000). Mitochondrial Isa2p plays a crucial role in the maturation of cellular Fe/S proteins. FEBS Letters 476, 134-139.