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. 2010 May 18;49(24):4945–4956. doi: 10.1021/bi1004798

Table 1. Primarily Affected Tissues in Fe−S Cluster Synthesis Diseasesa.

  FXN GLRX5 ISCU ABCB7
erythroblasts   +   +
sensory and cerebellar neurons +     +
cardiomyocytes +   +  
skeletal myocytes     +  
a

The primarily affected cell types are sensory neurons and cardiac myocytes for frataxin-deficient Friedreich's ataxia, erythroblasts and cerebellar neurons for ABCB7-deficient XLSA/A, skeletal and cardiac myocytes for ISCU-deficient myopathy, and erythroblasts for GLRX5-deficient sideroblastic anemia.