The Toxoplasma gondii mitochondrial transporter ABCB7L is essential for the biogenesis of cytosolic and nuclear iron-sulfur cluster proteins and cytosolic translation.
Andrew E MacleanMegan A SloanEléa A RenaudBlythe E ArgyleWilliam H LewisJana OvciarikovaVincent DemolombeRoss Frederick WallerSébastien BesteiroLilach SheinerPublished in: mBio (2024)
ABCB7L and showed its importance for parasite fitness. Using comparative quantitative proteomic analysis and experimental validation of the mutants, we show that ABCB7L is required for cytosolic and nuclear, but not mitochondrial, Fe-S protein biogenesis. Our study supports the conservation of a protein homologous to ABCB7 and which has a similar function in apicomplexan parasites and provides insight into an understudied aspect of parasite metabolism.