Frataxin (FXN) is involved in mitochondrial iron-sulfur (Fe-S) cluster biogenesis and serves to accelerate Fe-S cluster formation. FXN deficiency is associated with Friedreich ataxia, a neurodegenerative disease. Using chemical cross-linking (XL) accompanied with LC-MS/MS, we studied the the interaction between the core complexes Acp-ISD11-NFS1 (AIN) and AIN-ISCU (AINU) with FXN.