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Harry A Dailey

Professor Emeritus, University of Georgia
Verified email at uga.edu
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Prokaryotic heme biosynthesis: multiple pathways to a common essential product

HA Dailey, TA Dailey, S Gerdes, D Jahn… - Microbiology and …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
The advent of heme during evolution allowed organisms possessing this compound to
safely and efficiently carry out a variety of chemical reactions that otherwise were difficult or …

[HTML][HTML] One ring to rule them all: trafficking of heme and heme synthesis intermediates in the metazoans

I Hamza, HA Dailey - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular Cell …, 2012 - Elsevier
The appearance of heme, an organic ring surrounding an iron atom, in evolution forever
changed the efficiency with which organisms were able to generate energy, utilize gasses and …

Human ferrochelatase is an iron-sulfur protein

HA Dailey, MG Finnegan, MK Johnson - Biochemistry, 1994 - ACS Publications
MATERIALS AND METHODS Recombinant human ferrochelatase and the carboxyl-terminal
truncated version of the enzyme were produced and purified as described previously (…

The 2.0 Å structure of human ferrochelatase, the terminal enzyme of heme biosynthesis

CK Wu, HA Dailey, JP Rose, A Burden… - Nature structural …, 2001 - nature.com
Human ferrochelatase (EC 4.99. 1.1) is a homodimeric (86 kDa) mitochondrial membrane-associated
enzyme that catalyzes the insertion of ferrous iron into protoporphyrin to form heme…

A R59W mutation in human protoporphyrinogen oxidase results in decreased enzyme activity and is prevalent in South Africans with variegate porphyria

PN Meissner, TA Dailey, RJ Hift, M Ziman… - Nature …, 1996 - nature.com
Variegate porphyria (VP), a low-penetrant autosomal dominant inherited disorder of haem
metabolism, is characterised by photosensitivity (Fig. 1) and a propensity to develop acute …

Ferrochelatase forms an oligomeric complex with mitoferrin-1 and Abcb10 for erythroid heme biosynthesis

W Chen, HA Dailey, BH Paw - Blood, The Journal of the …, 2010 - ashpublications.org
In erythroid cells, ferrous iron is imported into the mitochondrion by mitoferrin-1 (Mfrn1).
Previously, we showed that Mfrn1 interacts with Abcb10 to enhance mitochondrial iron …

Noncanonical coproporphyrin-dependent bacterial heme biosynthesis pathway that does not use protoporphyrin

HA Dailey, S Gerdes, TA Dailey… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
It has been generally accepted that biosynthesis of protoheme (heme) uses a common set
of core metabolic intermediates that includes protoporphyrin. Herein, we show that the …

Erythroid heme biosynthesis and its disorders

HA Dailey, PN Meissner - Cold Spring …, 2013 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Heme, which is composed of iron and the small organic molecule protoporphyrin, is an essential
component of hemoglobin as well as a variety of physiologically important hemoproteins…

[HTML][HTML] Identification of the mitochondrial heme metabolism complex

…, AA Vashisht, JA Wohlschlegel, JD Phillips, HA Dailey - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Heme is an essential cofactor for most organisms and all metazoans. While the individual
enzymes involved in synthesis and utilization of heme are fairly well known, less is known …

Differential interaction of porphyrins used in photoradiation therapy with ferrochelatase

HA Dailey, A Smith - Biochemical Journal, 1984 - portlandpress.com
The mechanism of porphyrin accumulation by tumours is not yet established. If metabolism
aids porphyrin elimination, tumours, unlike normal tissues, may not metabolize porphyrins …