Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA

Amount

$697,501.00

Award Date

6/30/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

'Intellectual Merit Iron in its unbound state is potentially toxic to organisms; therefore, sophisticated mechanisms are in place to traffic this essential metal ion, especially in the mitochondrion. The mitochondrial iron chaperone protein frataxin binds