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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 265, Issue 22, 12786-12789, Aug, 1990

The inhibition of the iron responsive element RNA-protein interaction by heme does not mimic in vivo iron regulation

DJ Haile, TA Rouault, JB Harford and RD Klausner
Cell Biology and Metabolism Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.

Hemin at greater than 1 microM concentrations inhibits the interaction of the iron responsive element (IRE) and the iron responsive element binding protein (IRE-BP) as measured by gel retardation and UV cross- linking. Heme has recently been proposed to inhibit the repression of translation of an IRE-containing mRNA (Lin, J. J., Daniels-McQueen, S., Patino, M. M., Gaffield, L., Walden, W. E., and Thach, R. E., (1990) Science 247, 74-76). Our binding inhibition provides structural support for these observations. The action of hemin, however, does not mimic the physiologically demonstrated inhibition of high affinity binding of the IRE to IRE-BP by the oxidation of a sulfhydryl of the IRE-BP. In addition to this effect, hemin also inhibits a wide variety of RNA and DNA binding proteins, restriction endonucleases, and nucleases. Therefore, in vitro, the inhibitory effects of hemin are not limited to the interaction of the IRE-BP and the IRE, but are nonspecific and affect a wide variety of nucleic acid-protein interactions. Any hypothesis on the effects on protein-nucleic acid interactions employing greater than 1 microM concentrations of hemin should be interpreted with caution.
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