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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Microbiol. 2013 Aug 17;16(6):10.1016/j.mib.2013.07.019. doi: 10.1016/j.mib.2013.07.019

Table 1.

Select examples of RNA / protein abundance of iron-dependent proteins in response to iron and carbon status [24,26].

Cofactor Gene Name Fold-
change
limited
+ acetate1
Fold-
change
limited
– acetate1
Protein
abundance
(zmol/cell)
replete2
Protein
abundance
(zmol/cell)
limited2
involved in anaerobic metabolism / down-reg. by Fe-limiting photoheterotrophic growth

[4Fe-4S] HCP4 0.01
[4Fe-4S] HCP1 0.04
[4Fe-4S] PFR1 0.07
[2Fe-2S] HYDG 0.07
[4Fe-4S] HYDEF 0.09
[4Fe-4S] SIR1 0.17

down-reg. in both iron-limited photoheterotrophic and photo autotrophic g rowth

[4Fe-4S] HCP4 0.01 0.27
[4Fe-4S] HCP1 0.04 0.28
[4Fe-4S] SIR1 0.17 0.50
heme truncated hemoglobin 0.03 0.06
Fe, [2Fe-2S] glutaredoxin 0.33 0.35
heme CYP747A1 0.35 0.21
Fe RBD2 0.38 0.33

correlated reduction in transcript and protein abundance

[3Fe-4S] GSN1 0.34 46 ± 10 13 ± 2
[2Fe-2S] MitoNEET-like 0.36 37 ± 15 nd
[4Fe-4S] ACH1 0.49 379 ± 25 280 ± 35
[4Fe-4S] APR1 0.66 132 ± 13 32 ± 14
[4Fe-4S] HCP3 0.30 11 ± 6 nd
[2Fe-2S] PETF 0.61 87 ± 35 nd

reduction in protein abundance without significance change in transcript abundance

heme APX4 1.10 26 ± 3 nd
[4Fe-4S] IDS1 1.07 61 ± 7 nd
Fe Cre07.g320900 0.83 351 ± 68 nd
[4Fe-4S] LEU1L 1.12 159 ± 18 54 ± 1
1

Fold-change of RPKMs from iron-limited cultures (0.25 µM Fe) relative to cultures grown in the replete condition (20 µM Fe).

2

Protein abundance was quantitated for acetate-grown cultures.