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Miller D, Xu H, White RH. A New Subfamily of Agmatinases Present in Methanogenic Archaea Is Fe(II) Dependent. Biochemistry 2012; 51:3067-78. [DOI: 10.1021/bi300039f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Danielle Miller
- Department
of Biochemistry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia
24061, United States
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- Department
of Biochemistry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia
24061, United States
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- Department
of Biochemistry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia
24061, United States
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Glutathione homeostasis and functions: potential targets for medical interventions. JOURNAL OF AMINO ACIDS 2012; 2012:736837. [PMID: 22500213 PMCID: PMC3303626 DOI: 10.1155/2012/736837] [Citation(s) in RCA: 699] [Impact Index Per Article: 58.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2011] [Revised: 08/30/2011] [Accepted: 10/24/2011] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Glutathione (GSH) is a tripeptide, which has many biological roles including protection against reactive oxygen and nitrogen species. The primary goal of this paper is to characterize the principal mechanisms of the protective role of GSH against reactive species and electrophiles. The ancillary goals are to provide up-to-date knowledge of GSH biosynthesis, hydrolysis, and utilization; intracellular compartmentalization and interorgan transfer; elimination of endogenously produced toxicants; involvement in metal homeostasis; glutathione-related enzymes and their regulation; glutathionylation of sulfhydryls. Individual sections are devoted to the relationships between GSH homeostasis and pathologies as well as to developed research tools and pharmacological approaches to manipulating GSH levels. Special attention is paid to compounds mainly of a natural origin (phytochemicals) which affect GSH-related processes. The paper provides starting points for development of novel tools and provides a hypothesis for investigation of the physiology and biochemistry of glutathione with a focus on human and animal health.
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Bettzieche A, Brandsch C, Hirche F, Eder K, Stangl GI. L-cysteine down-regulates SREBP-1c-regulated lipogenic enzymes expression via glutathione in HepG2 cells. ANNALS OF NUTRITION AND METABOLISM 2008; 52:196-203. [PMID: 18544973 DOI: 10.1159/000138123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2007] [Accepted: 02/18/2008] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND/AIM Protein-associated amino acids are supposed to play a role in sterol regulatory element-binding protein (SREBP)-mediated regulation of lipid metabolism. This study investigates the effects of cysteine on expression of SREBP-regulated hepatic genes. METHODS HepG2 cells which are an accepted model for the study of the lipid metabolism were treated with L-cysteine under different conditions. RESULTS Exposure of cells to L-cysteine reduced the mRNA concentrations of SREBP-1c (-35 to -43%) and its target genes fatty acid synthase (FAS; -20 to -50%), glucose-6-phosphate-dehydrogenase (G6PDH; -31 to -35%), and stearoyl-coenzyme A desaturase (SCD)1 (-34 to -50%). Cells treated with L-cysteine had 47% higher glutathione and 47% lower triglyceride concentrations than control cells. In cells which were concurrently treated with L-cysteine and L-buthionine-[S,R]-sulfoximine, an inhibitor of enzymatic glutathione synthesis, no down-regulation of the gene expression was observed. Pro-oxidant CuSO(4) up-regulated SREBP-1c (+71%), FAS (+165%), G6PDH (+84%) and SCD1 (+96%) mRNA abundance compared to control cells, but when cells were concurrently treated with L-cysteine, the gene expression remained at control level. CONCLUSIONS The results show that L-cysteine rapidly down-regulates the transcription of genes involved in fatty acid biosynthesis via a mechanism that appears to be mediated by an improved glutathione status.
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- Anja Bettzieche
- Institute of Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale, Germany
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Wells WW, Yang Y, Deits TL, Gan ZR. Thioltransferases. ADVANCES IN ENZYMOLOGY AND RELATED AREAS OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2006; 66:149-201. [PMID: 8430514 DOI: 10.1002/9780470123126.ch4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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A family of small molecular weight proteins with thiol-disulfide exchange activity have been discovered, widely distributed from E. coli to mammalian systems, called thioltransferases or glutaredoxins. There are no substantiated reports of thioltransferases-glutaredoxins in plants; however, partially purified dehydroascorbate reductase from peas had thiol-disulfide exchange catalytic activity using glutathione as reductant and S-sulfocysteine as thiosulfate cosubstrate (unpublished data). Thus, this class of proteins is universally distributed. Based on mutagenesis studies, a sequence of Cys-Pro-Tyr(Phe)-Cys- followed by Arg-Lys- or Lys alone is critical for both the thiol-disulfide exchange reaction and the dehydroascorbate reductase activity. The dithiol-disulfide loop represented by this structure is unique since the cystine closer to the N-terminus has a highly acidic thiol pKa (3.8 as determined for the pig liver enzyme) that contributes to the protein's high S- nucleophilicity. Compared with the microbial enzyme, the mammalian thioltransferases (glutaredoxins) are extended at both N and C termini by 10-12 amino acid residues, including a second pair of cysteines toward the C-terminus with no known special function. Yeast thioltransferase is more like mammalian enzymes in length (106 amino acids) but more like E. coli glutaredoxin in being unblocked at the N-terminus and having only one set of cysteines; that is, at the active center. The three mammalian enzymes, for which sequences are available, are blocked at the N-terminus by an acetyl group linked to alanine with no known special function other than possibly to impart greater cellular turnover stability. A report of carbohydrate (8.6%) content in rat liver thioltransferase has not been verified by more sensitive methods of carbohydrate analysis, nor has carbohydrate been identified in samples of purified glutaredoxin from any source. Thiol transferase and glutaredoxin are two names for the same protein based on similarity of amino acid sequence, immunochemical cross-reactivity, and other enzyme properties. The inability of thioltransferase from some mammalian sources to act as an electron carrier in ribonucleotide reductase systems, whether homologous or heterologous in origin, remains to be explained in future studies.
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- W W Wells
- Department of Biochemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing
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Gilbert HF. Molecular and cellular aspects of thiol-disulfide exchange. ADVANCES IN ENZYMOLOGY AND RELATED AREAS OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2006; 63:69-172. [PMID: 2407068 DOI: 10.1002/9780470123096.ch2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 251] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- H F Gilbert
- Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030
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Danek BL, Robinson AS. P22 tailspike trimer assembly is governed by interchain redox associations. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS 2004; 1700:105-16. [PMID: 15210130 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2004.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2003] [Revised: 04/07/2004] [Accepted: 04/08/2004] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Though disulfide bonds are absent from P22 tailspike protein in its native state, a disulfide-bonded trimeric intermediate has been identified in the tailspike folding and assembly pathway in vitro. The formation of disulfide bonds is critical to efficient assembly of native trimers as mutations at C-terminal cysteines reduce or inhibit trimer formation. We investigated the effect of different redox folding environments on tailspike formation to discover if simple changes in reducing potential would facilitate trimer formation. Expression of tailspike in trxB cell lines with more oxidizing cytoplasms led to lower trimer yields; however, observed assembly rates were unchanged. In vitro, the presence of any redox buffer decreased the overall yield compared to non-redox buffered controls; however, the greatest yields of the native trimer were obtained in reducing rather than oxidizing environments at pH 7. Slightly faster trimer formation rates were observed in the redox samples at pH 7, perhaps by accelerating the reduction of the disulfide-bonded protrimer to the native trimer. These rates and the effects of the redox system were found to depend greatly on the pH of the refolding reaction. Oxidized glutathione (GSSG) trapped a tailspike intermediate, likely as a mixed disulfide. This trapped intermediate was able to form native trimer upon addition of dithiothreitol (DTT), indicating that the trapped intermediate is on the assembly pathway, rather than the aggregation pathway. Thus, the presence of redox agents interfered with the ability of the tailspike monomers to associate, demonstrating that disulfide associations play an important role during the assembly of this cytoplasmic protein.
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- B L Danek
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA
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Hui TY, Sheth SS, Diffley JM, Potter DW, Lusis AJ, Attie AD, Davis RA. Mice Lacking Thioredoxin-interacting Protein Provide Evidence Linking Cellular Redox State to Appropriate Response to Nutritional Signals. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:24387-93. [PMID: 15047687 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m401280200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Thioredoxin-interacting protein (Txnip) is a ubiquitous protein that binds with high affinity to thioredoxin and inhibits its ability to reduce sulfhydryl groups via NADPH oxidation. HcB-19 mice contain a nonsense mutation in Txnip that eliminates its expression. Unlike normal animals, HcB-19 mice have approximately 3-fold increase in insulin levels when fasted. The C-peptide/insulin ratio is normal, suggesting that the hyperinsulinemia is due to increased insulin secretion. Fasted HcB-19 mice are hypoglycemic, hypertriglyceridemic, and have higher than normal levels of ketone bodies. Ablation of pancreatic beta-cells with streptozotocin completely blocks the fasting-induced hypoglycemia/hypertriglyceridemia, suggesting that these abnormalities are due to excess insulin secretion. This is supported by increased hepatic mRNA levels of the insulin-inducible, lipogenic transcription factor sterol-responsive element-binding protein-1c and two of its targets, acetyl-CoA carboxylase and fatty acid synthase. During a prolonged fast, the hyperinsulinemia up-regulates lipogenesis but fails to down-regulate hepatic phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase mRNA expression. Hepatic ratios of reduced:oxidized glutathione, established regulators of gluconeogenic/glycolytic/lipogenic enzymes, were elevated 30% in HcB-19 mice, suggesting a loss of Txnip-enhanced sulfhydryl reduction. The altered hepatic enzymatic profiles of HcB-19 mice divert phosphoenolpyruvate to glyceroneogenesis and lipogenesis rather than gluconeogenesis. Our findings implicate Txnip-modulated sulfhydryl redox as a central regulator of insulin secretion in beta-cells and regulation of many of the branch-points of gluconeogenesis/glycolysis/lipogenesis.
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- To Yuen Hui
- Mammalian Cell and Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Biology, Molecular Biology Institute and Heart Institute, San Diego State University, San Diego, California 92182, USA
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McCarty MF. Inhibition of acetyl-CoA carboxylase by cystamine may mediate the hypotriglyceridemic activity of pantethine. Med Hypotheses 2001; 56:314-7. [PMID: 11359352 DOI: 10.1054/mehy.2000.1155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Pantethine is a versatile and well-tolerated hypolipidemic agent whose efficacy in this regard appears to be mediated by its catabolic product cystamine, a nucleophile which avidly attacks disulfide groups. An overview of pantethine research suggests that the hypotriglyceridemic activity of pantethine reflects cystamine-mediated inhibition of the hepatic acetyl-CoA carboxylase, which can be expected to activate hepatic fatty acid oxidation. Inhibition of HMG-CoA reductase as well as a more distal enzyme in the cholesterol synthetic pathway may account for pantethine's hypocholesterolemic effects. If pantethine does indeed effectively inhibit hepatic acetyl-CoA carboxylase, it may have adjuvant utility in the hepatothermic therapy of obesity. As a safe and effective compound of natural origin, pantethine merits broader use in the management of hyperlipidemias.
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- M F McCarty
- Pantox Laboratories, San Diego, CA 92109, USA
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Klatt P, Lamas S. Regulation of protein function by S-glutathiolation in response to oxidative and nitrosative stress. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 2000; 267:4928-44. [PMID: 10931175 DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2000.01601.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 558] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Protein S-glutathiolation, the reversible covalent addition of glutathione to cysteine residues on target proteins, is emerging as a candidate mechanism by which both changes in the intracellular redox state and the generation of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species may be transduced into a functional response. This review will provide an introduction to the concepts of oxidative and nitrosative stress and outline the molecular mechanisms of protein regulation by oxidative and nitrosative thiol-group modifications. Special attention will be paid to recently published work supporting a role for S-glutathiolation in stress signalling pathways and in the adaptive cellular response to oxidative and nitrosative stress. Finally, novel insights into the molecular mechanisms of S-glutathiolation as well as methodological problems related to the interpretation of the biological relevance of this post-translational protein modification will be discussed.
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- P Klatt
- Department of Estructura y Función de Proteínas, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Instituto Reina Sofía de Investigaciones Nefrológicas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain.
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Cappiello M, Vilardo PG, Micheli V, Jacomelli G, Banditelli S, Leverenz V, Giblin FJ, Del Corso A, Mura U. Thiol disulfide exchange modulates the activity of aldose reductase in intact bovine lens as a response to oxidative stress. Exp Eye Res 2000; 70:795-803. [PMID: 10843784 DOI: 10.1006/exer.2000.0838] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The reversibility of S-thiolation of aldose reductase was shown in intact bovine lens subjected to oxidative stress. The glutathione modified aldose reductase generated in the lens as a consequence of hyperbaric oxygen treatment was recovered in its reduced form following culturing in normobaric air conditions. Nucleus and cortex were differently affected by both oxidative treatment and normobaric air recovery. The extent of S-thiolation of aldose reductase appeared to be higher in the nucleus than in the cortex. Moreover, the nucleus, but not the cortex, was unable to completely recover from the protein S-thiolation process. The ratios of GSH/GSSG and NADPH/NADP(+)as well as the Energy Charge values were determined in the cortex and nucleus both after oxidative stress and recovery. The results are consistent with the existence of a quite well-defined boundary between the two lens regions. Moreover, they are supportive of the hypothesis that thiol/disulfide exchange has the potential to be a regulatory mechanism for certain enzymes which can modulate the flux of NADPH inside the cell.
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- M Cappiello
- Dipartimento di Fisiologia e Biochimica, Università di Pisa, via S. Maria 55, Pisa, Italy
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Jahngen-Hodge J, Obin MS, Gong X, Shang F, Nowell TR, Gong J, Abasi H, Blumberg J, Taylor A. Regulation of ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes by glutathione following oxidative stress. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:28218-26. [PMID: 9353272 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.45.28218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 206] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Upon oxidative stress cells show an increase in the oxidized glutathione (GSSG) to reduced glutathione (GSH) ratio with a concomitant decrease in activity of the ubiquitinylation pathway. Because most of the enzymes involved in the attachment of ubiquitin to substrate proteins contain active site sulfhydryls that might be covalently modified (thiolated) upon enhancement of GSSG levels (glutathiolation), it appeared plausible that glutathiolation might alter ubiquitinylation rates upon cellular oxidative stress. This hypothesis was explored using intact retina and retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cell models. Exposure of intact bovine retina and RPE cells to H2O2 (0.1-1.7 micromol/mg) resulted in a dose-dependent increase in the GSSG:GSH ratio and coincident dose-dependent reductions in the levels of endogenous ubiquitin-activating enzyme (E1)-ubiquitin thiol esters and endogenous protein-ubiquitin conjugates and in the ability to form de novo retinal protein-125I-labeled ubiquitin conjugates. Oxidant-induced decrements in ubiquitin conjugates were associated with 60-80% reductions in E1 and ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme (E2) activities as measured by formation of ubiquitin thiol esters. When GSH levels in RPE cells recovered to preoxidation levels following H2O2 removal, endogenous E1 activity and protein-ubiquitin conjugates were restored. Evidence that S thiolation of E1 and E2 enzymes is the biochemical link between cellular redox state and E1/E2 activities includes: (i) 5-fold increases in levels of immunoprecipitable, dithiothreitol-labile 35S-E1 adducts in metabolically labeled, H2O2-treated, RPE cells; (ii) diminished formation of E1- and E2-125I-labeled ubiquitin thiol esters, oligomerization of E225K, and coincident reductions in protein-125I-labeled ubiquitin conjugates in supernatants from nonstressed retinas upon addition of levels of GSSG equivalent to levels measured in oxidatively stressed retinas; and (iii) partial restoration of E1 and E2 activities and levels of protein-125I-labeled ubiquitin conjugates in supernatants from H2O2-treated retinas when GSSG:GSH ratios were restored to preoxidation levels by the addition of physiological levels of GSH. These data suggest that the cellular redox status modulates protein ubiquitinylation via reversible S thiolation of E1 and E2 enzymes, presumably by glutathione.
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- J Jahngen-Hodge
- Laboratory for Nutrition and Vision Research, Jean Mayer United States Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA
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Martínez-Chantar ML, Pajares MA. Role of thioltransferases on the modulation of rat liver S-adenosylmethionine synthetase activity by glutathione. FEBS Lett 1996; 397:293-7. [PMID: 8955366 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(96)01201-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Rat liver S-adenosylmethionine synthetase, high- and low-Mr forms, are regulated in vitro by the GSH/GSSG ratio at pH 8. The inhibition and oxidation constants for both forms have been calculated in the presence of thioltransferases. The mechanism of the reaction appeared to involve the formation of intramolecular disulfides. Increases of 3- to 4-fold in the oxidation constants for both S-adenosylmethionine synthetase isoenzymes in the presence of protein disulfide isomerase suggested the possibility of a thiol-disulfide exchange regulatory mechanism for this enzyme in vivo. The significance of these results is discussed on the light of the data available relating glutathione changes and modulation of enzyme activities, either in vivo and in vitro.
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Ferreras M, Gavilanes JG, López-Otín C, García-Segura JM. Thiol-disulfide exchange of ribonuclease inhibitor bound to ribonuclease A. Evidence of active inhibitor-bound ribonuclease. J Biol Chem 1995; 270:28570-8. [PMID: 7499372 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.48.28570] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Ribonuclease Inhibitor (RI) has been purified from pig testis. It contains 30 half-cystines whose oxidation affects its ability to bind and inhibit ribonuclease (RNase). By N-terminal sequence analyses testis RI showed to be identical to that from porcine liver, for which a characteristic all-or-none type of SH-oxidation by 5,5'-dithiobis(2-nitrobenzoic acid) (DTNB) has been reported (Fominaya, J.M., and Hofsteenge, J. (1992) J. Biol. Chem. 257, 24655-24660). Under comparable reaction conditions, testis RI bound to RNase A did not exhibit this particular type of oxidation; instead, bound RI got intermediate oxidation degrees (up to 14 thiols oxidized per RI moiety) without dissociating from RNase. Moreover, RNase bound to partially oxidized RI was able to express some (15%) of its potential activity (active complex). Only when DTNB treatments accounted for complex dissociation (> 14 thiols oxidized per RI moiety) the released RI molecules exhibited the all-or-none oxidation behavior. By both kinetic and circular dichroism analyses, conformational changes have been evidenced for the transition from the inactive to the active form of RI-RNase complex. Relaxation of RI-RNase binding without major alterations in RI structure is proposed as responsible for complex activation. The results are discussed in terms of a model for the reversible regulation of RNase activity mediated by the redox status of RI.
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- M Ferreras
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Química, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
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Rondon IJ, Scandurro AB, Wilson RB, Beckman BS. Changes in redox affect the activity of erythropoietin RNA binding protein. FEBS Lett 1995; 359:267-70. [PMID: 7867812 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(95)00066-i] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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We have previously identified a cytosolic protein, erythropoietin RNA binding protein (ERBP), which is up-regulated in certain tissues in response to hypoxia. To further characterize the interaction of ERBP and erythropoietin (EPO) mRNA, we have examined the role of reduction-oxidation in the EPO mRNA binding mechanism of ERBP isolated from human hepatoma cells (Hep3B). Reducing agents dithiothreitol (DTT) and 2-mercaptoethanol (2-ME) increased ERBP binding activity in a concentration-dependent manner, whereas the oxidizing agent, diamide, abolished ERBP binding activity. In addition, treatment of Hep3B cell lysates with the irreversible sulfhydryl alkylating agent N-ethylmaleimide resulted in inhibition of the EPO mRNA-ERBP complex. Taken together, these findings suggest that sulfhydryl groups may play a role in vivo in the regulation of EPO production through the modulation of ERBP binding activity.
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- I J Rondon
- Department of Pharmacology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70112
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- H F Gilbert
- Department of Biochemistry, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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Del Corso A, Cappiello M, Mura U. Thiol dependent oxidation of enzymes: the last chance against oxidative stress. THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1994; 26:745-50. [PMID: 8063003 DOI: 10.1016/0020-711x(94)90103-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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1. A survey of known effects of oxidized thiols on enzyme activity reveals a potential concerted action on metabolic pathways determining an impairment of anabolic reduction processes and an activation of the oxidative arm of the hexose monophosphate shunt. Thus it appears that, following oxidative stress, the increase of disulphides may act in restoring a reduced state in the cell by specifically channelling the metabolic energy flux.
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- A Del Corso
- Dipartimento di Fisiologia e Biochimica, Università di Pisa, Italy
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Oxidative inactivation of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase and subunit cross-linking involve different dithiol/disulfide centers. J Biol Chem 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)54156-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Wells TN, Saxty BA. Redox control of catalysis in ATP-citrate lysate from rat liver. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1992; 204:249-55. [PMID: 1740136 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1992.tb16631.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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In thiol redox buffers at pH 8.0, rat liver ATP-citrate lyase is in equilibrium between an oxidised inactive form and a reduced active form. The reduced enzyme is inactivated by oxidised glutathione (GSSG) at a rate of 45 min-1.M-1 and the oxidised enzyme is activated by reduced glutathione (GSH) at a rate of 3.2 min-1.M-1. At redox equilibrium, the enzyme activity depends on the ratio [GSH]2/[GSSG]. The inactivation involves formation of a protein-protein disulphide rather than a protein-glutathione complex. This reaction has Keq = 78 +/- 7 mM for the oxidative reaction. Activity can therefore be controlled by the redox state of the cell, being more active in the fed state than in the oxidatively stressed state. This redox process is also important in the in vitro enzyme assay, where ATP-citrate lyase is in redox equilibrium with oxygen and either dithiothreitol or 2-mercaptoethanol. Reduction is a two-step process, requiring high concentrations of reductant for full activation (30 mM dithiothreitol or 200 mM 2-mercaptoethanol). The enzyme inhibitor, Medica-16 raises the redox equilibrium constant to greater than 400 mM. It binds more tightly to the oxidised form of the enzyme, with Ki less than 40 microM compared to 180 microM for the reduced form.
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- T N Wells
- Molecular Enzymology Laboratory, Smith Kline Beecham, The Frythe, Welwyn, England
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Ricci G, Del Boccio G, Pennelli A, Lo Bello M, Petruzzelli R, Caccuri A, Barra D, Federici G. Redox forms of human placenta glutathione transferase. J Biol Chem 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)54653-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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The effects of NADPH and 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA on the thiol/disulfide redox behavior of rat liver microsomal 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA reductase. J Biol Chem 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)55419-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Terada T, Shinagawa K, Umemura T, Nishinaka T, Nanjo H, Hosomi S, Mizoguchi T, Nishihara T. Study on dihydrodiol dehydrogenase (II) modulation of dihydrodiol dehydrogenase activity by biological disulfides. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 1990; 284:177-85. [PMID: 2053475 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4684-5901-2_20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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- T Terada
- Laboratory of Biochemistry, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University, Japan
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More than a dozen enzymes have been found to be activated or inhibited in vitro by disulfide-exchange between the protein and small-molecule disulfides. Accordingly, thiol/disulfide ratio changes in vivo may be of great importance in the regulation of cellular metabolism. An awareness of this regulatory mechanism in both host cells and parasites, coupled with information on the presence or absence of key enzymes, may lead to rational drug design against certain diseases involving thiol intermediates, including trypanosomiasis.
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- R N Ondarza
- Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
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Renaturation of ovotransferrin under two-step conditions allowing primary folding of the fully reduced form and the subsequent regeneration of the intramolecular disulfides. J Biol Chem 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)84787-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Loeb GA, Skelton DC, Forman HJ. Dependence of mixed disulfide formation in alveolar macrophages upon production of oxidized glutathione: effect of selenium depletion. Biochem Pharmacol 1989; 38:3119-21. [PMID: 2783166 DOI: 10.1016/0006-2952(89)90024-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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- G A Loeb
- Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Cappel RE, Gilbert HF. The effects of Mevinolin on The Thiol/Disulfide Exchange between 3-Hydroxy-3-methyglutaryl-coenzyme A Reductase and Glutathione. J Biol Chem 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)60511-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Hentze MW, Rouault TA, Harford JB, Klausner RD. Oxidation-reduction and the molecular mechanism of a regulatory RNA-protein interaction. Science 1989; 244:357-9. [PMID: 2711187 DOI: 10.1126/science.2711187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 338] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Iron-responsive elements (IREs) are RNA motifs that have been identified within the 5' untranslated region of ferritin messenger RNA and the 3' untranslated region of transferrin receptor mRNA. A single IRE mediates iron-dependent control of ferritin translation, whereas multiple IREs are found in the region of the transferrin receptor mRNA responsible for iron-dependent control of mRNA stability. A cytosolic protein binds in vitro to the IREs of both mRNAs. The IRE-binding protein (IRE-BP) is shown to require free sulfhydryl groups for its specific interaction with the IRE. Treatment of lysates with reducing agents increases the binding activity, whereas agents that block sulfhydryls inhibit binding. Iron starvation, leading to decreased ferritin translation, results in increased binding activity, which is explained by an increase in the fraction of the IRE-BP that is in a fully reduced state.
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- M W Hentze
- Cell Biology and Metabolism Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD 20892
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Rokutan K, Thomas JA, Sies H. Specific S-thiolation of a 30-kDa cytosolic protein from rat liver under oxidative stress. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1989; 179:233-9. [PMID: 2917563 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1989.tb14546.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Thin-gel isoelectric focusing (IEF) is a simple and sensitive method of quantifying S-thiolation of individual proteins (protein mixed-disulfide formation). IEF of rat liver cytosol identified one major protein (pI 7.0) which underwent S-thiolation with glutathione disulfide to produce two acidic bands with pIs 6.4 and 6.1. The S-thiolated forms of the protein were purified by preparative isoelectric focusing. An apparent molecular mass of 30 kDa was determined by SDS/polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The 30-kDa protein amounted to 7 +/- 2% of the total cytosolic protein on IEF. The most abundant soluble protein of freshly isolated hepatocytes, with an identical isoelectric point to the liver 30-kDa protein, was modified in a similar manner in response to oxidative stress induced by model compounds. Addition of 50 microM tert-butyl hydroperoxide, 50 microM diamide [1,1-azobis(N,N'-dimethylformamide)] or 20 microM menadione (2-methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone) initiated the S-thiolation within less than 2 min in the hepatocytes. These compounds, at the concentrations employed, did not result in cell death. Menadione produced slowly progressive S-thiolation of the protein, while tert-butyl hydroperoxide or diamide produced rapid S-thiolation that decreased quickly after 2 min.
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- K Rokutan
- Institut für Physiologische Chemie I, Universität Düsseldorf, Federal Republic of Germany
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Young PR, Briedis AV. Kinetics and mechanism of the glutathione-dependent reduction of dehydromethionine. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1988; 967:318-21. [PMID: 3191157 DOI: 10.1016/0304-4165(88)90026-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Dehydromethionine (S-methylisothiazolidine-3-carboxylic acid) is reduced by glutathione (aqueous solution, 25 degrees C) to give methionine and glutathione disulfide in a reaction that is dependent on pH and the nature and concentration of the buffer utilized. The data are consistent with proton-assisted, rate-limiting attack of glutathione thiolate anion on the sulfilimine sulfur with concomitant cleavage of the sulfur-nitrogen bond. The data predict a half-life for dehydromethionine ranging between 33 and 330 min in the presence of physiological concentrations of glutathione and phosphate buffer, suggesting that dehydromethionine and similar sulfilimines may have a sufficient lifetime in vivo to permit their use as carriers of oxidizing equivalents.
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- P R Young
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Chicago 60680
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Cappel RE, Gilbert HF. Thiol/disulfide exchange between 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA reductase and glutathione. A thermodynamically facile dithiol oxidation. J Biol Chem 1988. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)37740-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Nuoffer C, Zanolari B, Erni B. Glucose permease of Escherichia coli. The effect of cysteine to serine mutations on the function, stability, and regulation of transport and phosphorylation. J Biol Chem 1988. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)68691-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Park EM, Thomas JA. S-thiolation of creatine kinase and glycogen phosphorylase b initiated by partially reduced oxygen species. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1988; 964:151-60. [PMID: 2829973 DOI: 10.1016/0304-4165(88)90161-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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S-thiolation of cardiac creatine kinase and skeletal muscle glycogen phosphorylase b was initiated by reduced oxygen species in reaction mixtures containing reduced glutathione. Both proteins were extensively modified at similar rates under conditions in which the oxidation of glutathione was inadequate to cause S-thiolation by thiol-disulfide exchange. Creatine kinase was both S-thiolated and non-reducibly oxidized at the same time at low glutathione concentration. The amount of each modification was decreased by adding additional reduced glutathione, and with adequate glutathione oxidation was prevented while S-thiolation was still very active. S-thiolation of glycogen phosphorylase b was not significantly affected by glutathione concentration and non-reducible oxidation of glycogen phosphorylase b was not observed. These experiments suggest that oxyradical or H2O2-initiated processes may be an important mechanism of protein S-thiolation during oxidative stress, and that the cellular concentration of glutathione may be an important factor in S-thiolation of different proteins. Both creatine kinase and glycogen phosphorylase b competed favorably with ferricytochrome c for superoxide anion in the standard xanthine oxidase system for the generation of oxyradicals and H2O2. These proteins were as effective as ascorbate and much more effective than reduced glutathione in this regard. Ascorbate was also an effective inhibitor of oxyradical-initiated S-thiolation of creatine kinase, suggesting a role of superoxide anion in protein S-thiolation. Other experiments showed that both catalase and superoxide dismutase could partially inhibit protein S-thiolation. Thus, reduced oxygen species may react with protein sulfhydryls resulting in S-thiolation by a mechanism that involves the reaction of an activated protein thiol with reduced glutathione.
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- E M Park
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Iowa State University, Ames 50011
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Clancey CJ, Gilbert HF. Thiol/disulfide exchange in the thioredoxin-catalyzed reductive activation of spinach chloroplast fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase. Kinetics and thermodynamics. J Biol Chem 1987. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)76462-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Cappel RE, Bremer JW, Timmons TM, Nelson TE, Gilbert HF. Thiol/disulfide redox equilibrium between glutathione and glycogen debranching enzyme (amylo-1,6-glucosidase/4-alpha-glucanotransferase) from rabbit muscle. J Biol Chem 1986. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)66722-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Walters DW, Gilbert HF. Thiol/disulfide exchange between rabbit muscle phosphofructokinase and glutathione. Kinetics and thermodynamics of enzyme oxidation. J Biol Chem 1986. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)66720-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Cappel RE, Gilbert HF. Cooperative behavior in the thiol oxidation of rabbit muscle glycogen phosphorylase in cysteamine/cystamine redox buffers. J Biol Chem 1986. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)66721-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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