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Maret W. The quintessence of metallomics: a harbinger of a different life science based on the periodic table of the bioelements. Metallomics 2022; 14:mfac051. [PMID: 35820043 PMCID: PMC9406523 DOI: 10.1093/mtomcs/mfac051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2022] [Accepted: 07/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
Abstract
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the field of metallomics. As a landmark in time, it is an occasion to reflect on the past, present, and future of this integrated field of biometal sciences. A fundamental bias is one reason for having metallomics as a scientific discipline. The focus of biochemistry on the six non-metal chemical elements, collectively known with the acronym SPONCH (sulphur, phosphorus, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, hydrogen), glosses over the fact that the lower quantities of many other elements have qualities that made them instrumental in the evolution of life and pivotal in numerous life processes. The metallome, alongside the genome, proteome, lipidome, and glycome, should be regarded as a fifth pillar of elemental-vis-à-vis molecular-building blocks in biochemistry. Metallomics as 'global approaches to metals in the biosciences' considers the biological significance of most chemical elements in the periodic table, not only the ones essential for life, but also the non-essential ones that are present in living matter-some at higher concentrations than the essential ones. The non-essential elements are bioactive with either positive or negative effects. Integrating the significance of many more chemical elements into the life sciences requires a transformation in learning and teaching with a focus on elemental biology in addition to molecular biology. It should include the dynamic interactions between the biosphere and the geosphere and how the human footprint is changing the ecology globally and exposing us to many additional chemical elements that become new bioelements.
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Affiliation(s)
- Wolfgang Maret
- Metal Metabolism Group, Department of Nutritional Sciences, School of Life Course and Population Sciences, King's College London,London, UK
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Liu R, Kowada T, Du Y, Amagai Y, Matsui T, Inaba K, Mizukami S. Organelle-Level Labile Zn 2+ Mapping Based on Targetable Fluorescent Sensors. ACS Sens 2022; 7:748-757. [PMID: 35238552 PMCID: PMC8963189 DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.1c02153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Although many Zn2+ fluorescent probes have been developed, there remains a lack of consensus on the labile Zn2+ concentrations ([Zn2+]) in several cellular compartments, as the fluorescence properties and zinc affinity of the fluorescent probes are greatly affected by the pH and redox environments specific to organelles. In this study, we developed two turn-on-type Zn2+ fluorescent probes, namely, ZnDA-2H and ZnDA-3H, with low pH sensitivity and suitable affinity (Kd = 5.0 and 0.16 nM) for detecting physiological labile Zn2+ in various cellular compartments, such as the cytosol, nucleus, ER, and mitochondria. Due to their sufficient membrane permeability, both probes were precisely localized to the target organelles in HeLa cells using HaloTag labeling technology. Using an in situ standard quantification method, we identified the [Zn2+] in the tested organelles, resulting in the subcellular [Zn2+] distribution as [Zn2+]ER < [Zn2+]mito < [Zn2+]cyto ∼ [Zn2+]nuc.
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- Rong Liu
- Graduate
School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira,
Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8577, Japan
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- Graduate
School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira,
Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8577, Japan,Institute
of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8577, Japan,Department
of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Tohoku
University, 6-3 Aramaki-aza-Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8578, Japan
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- Department
of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Tohoku
University, 6-3 Aramaki-aza-Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8578, Japan
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- Institute
of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8577, Japan
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- Graduate
School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira,
Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8577, Japan,Institute
of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8577, Japan,Department
of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Tohoku
University, 6-3 Aramaki-aza-Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8578, Japan
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- Graduate
School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira,
Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8577, Japan,Institute
of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8577, Japan,Department
of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Tohoku
University, 6-3 Aramaki-aza-Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8578, Japan,AMED-CREST,
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 100-0004, Japan
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- Graduate
School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira,
Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8577, Japan,Institute
of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8577, Japan,Department
of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Tohoku
University, 6-3 Aramaki-aza-Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8578, Japan,AMED-CREST,
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 100-0004, Japan,
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Pratt EPS, Damon LJ, Anson KJ, Palmer AE. Tools and techniques for illuminating the cell biology of zinc. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH 2020; 1868:118865. [PMID: 32980354 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2020.118865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2020] [Revised: 09/13/2020] [Accepted: 09/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Zinc (Zn2+) is an essential micronutrient that is required for a wide variety of cellular processes. Tools and methods have been instrumental in revealing the myriad roles of Zn2+ in cells. This review highlights recent developments fluorescent sensors to measure the labile Zn2+ pool, chelators to manipulate Zn2+ availability, and fluorescent tools and proteomics approaches for monitoring Zn2+-binding proteins in cells. Finally, we close with some highlights on the role of Zn2+ in regulating cell function and in cell signaling.
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- Evan P S Pratt
- Department of Biochemistry and BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, 3415 Colorado Ave, Boulder, CO 80303, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry and BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, 3415 Colorado Ave, Boulder, CO 80303, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry and BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, 3415 Colorado Ave, Boulder, CO 80303, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry and BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, 3415 Colorado Ave, Boulder, CO 80303, United States of America.
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Cotrim CA, Jarrott RJ, Martin JL, Drew D. A structural overview of the zinc transporters in the cation diffusion facilitator family. Acta Crystallogr D Struct Biol 2019; 75:357-367. [PMID: 30988253 PMCID: PMC6465983 DOI: 10.1107/s2059798319003814] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2018] [Accepted: 03/19/2019] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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The cation diffusion facilitators (CDFs) are a family of membrane-bound proteins that maintain cellular homeostasis of essential metal ions. In humans, the zinc-transporter CDF family members (ZnTs) play important roles in zinc homeostasis. They do this by facilitating zinc efflux from the cytoplasm to the extracellular space across the plasma membrane or into intracellular organelles. Several ZnTs have been implicated in human health owing to their association with type 2 diabetes and neurodegenerative diseases. Although the structure determination of CDF family members is not trivial, recent advances in membrane-protein structural biology have resulted in two structures of bacterial YiiPs and several structures of their soluble C-terminal domains. These data reveal new insights into the molecular mechanism of ZnT proteins, suggesting a unique rocking-bundle mechanism that provides alternating access to the metal-binding site.
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- Camila A. Cotrim
- Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD 4111, Australia
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- Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD 4111, Australia
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- Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD 4111, Australia
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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Maret W. Metallomics: The Science of Biometals and Biometalloids. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2018; 1055:1-20. [PMID: 29884959 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-90143-5_1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Metallomics, a discipline integrating sciences that address the biometals and biometalloids, provides new opportunities for discoveries. As part of a systems biology approach, it draws attention to the importance of many chemical elements in biochemistry. Traditionally, biochemistry has treated life as organic chemistry, separating it from inorganic chemistry, considered a field reserved for investigating the inanimate world. However, inorganic chemistry is part of the chemistry of life, and metallomics contributes by showing the importance of a neglected fifth branch of building blocks in biochemistry. Metallomics adds chemical elements/metals to the four building blocks of biomolecules and the fields of their studies: carbohydrates (glycome), lipids (lipidome), proteins (proteome), and nucleotides (genome). The realization that non-essential elements are present in organisms in addition to essential elements represents a certain paradigm shift in our thinking, as it stipulates inquiries into the functional implications of virtually all the natural elements. This article discusses opportunities arising from metallomics for a better understanding of human biology and health. It looks at a biological periodic system of the elements as a sum of metallomes and focuses on the major roles of metals in about 30-40% of all proteins, the metalloproteomes. It emphasizes the importance of zinc and iron biology and discusses why it is important to investigate non-essential metal ions, what bioinformatics approaches can contribute to understanding metalloproteins, and why metallomics has a bright future in the many dimensions it covers.
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- Wolfgang Maret
- Metal Metabolism Group, Departments of Biochemistry and Nutritional Sciences, School of Life Course Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, UK.
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Pace NJ, Weerapana E. A competitive chemical-proteomic platform to identify zinc-binding cysteines. ACS Chem Biol 2014; 9:258-65. [PMID: 24111988 DOI: 10.1021/cb400622q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Zinc ions (Zn(2+)) play vital catalytic, structural, and regulatory roles in protein function and are commonly chelated to cysteine residues within the protein framework. Current methods to identify Zn(2+)-binding cysteines rely on computational studies based on known Zn(2+)-chelating motifs, as well as high-resolution structural data. These available approaches preclude the global identification of putative Zn(2+)-chelating cysteines, particularly on poorly characterized proteins in the proteome. Herein, we describe an experimental platform that identifies metal-binding cysteines on the basis of their reduced nucleophilicity upon treatment with metal ions. As validation of our platform, we utilize a peptide-based cysteine-reactive probe to show that the known Zn(2+)-chelating cysteine in sorbitol dehydrogenase (SORD) demonstrates an expected loss in nucleophilicity in the presence of Zn(2+) ions and a gain in nucleophilicity upon treatment with a Zn(2+) chelator. We also identified the active-site cysteine in glutathione S-transferase omega-1 (GSTO1) as a potential Zn(2+)-chelation site, albeit with lower metal affinity relative to SORD. Treatment of recombinant GSTO1 with Zn(2+) ions results in a dose-dependent decrease in GSTO1 activity. Furthermore, we apply a promiscuous cysteine-reactive probe to globally identify putative Zn(2+)-binding cysteines across ∼900 cysteines in the human proteome. This proteomic study identified several well-characterized Zn(2+)-binding proteins, as well as numerous uncharacterized proteins from functionally distinct classes. This platform is highly versatile and provides an experimental tool that complements existing computational and structural methods to identify metal-binding cysteine residues.
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- Nicholas J. Pace
- Department of Chemistry, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467, United States
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Several pathways increase the concentrations of cellular free zinc(II) ions. Such fluctuations suggest that zinc(II) ions are signalling ions used for the regulation of proteins. One function is the inhibition of enzymes. It is quite common that enzymes bind zinc(II) ions with micro- or nanomolar affinities in their active sites that contain catalytic dyads or triads with a combination of glutamate (aspartate), histidine and cysteine residues, which are all typical zinc-binding ligands. However, for such binding to be physiologically significant, the binding constants must be compatible with the cellular availability of zinc(II) ions. The affinity of inhibitory zinc(II) ions for receptor protein tyrosine phosphatase β is particularly high (Ki = 21 pM, pH 7.4), indicating that some enzymes bind zinc almost as strongly as zinc metalloenzymes. The competitive pattern of zinc inhibition for this phosphatase implicates its active site cysteine and nearby residues in the coordination of zinc. Quantitative biophysical data on both affinities of proteins for zinc and cellular zinc(II) ion concentrations provide the basis for examining the physiological significance of inhibitory zinc-binding sites in proteins and the role of zinc(II) ions in cellular signalling. Regulatory functions of zinc(II) ions add a significant level of complexity to biological control of metabolism and signal transduction and embody a new paradigm for the role of transition metal ions in cell biology.
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- Wolfgang Maret
- King's College London, Metal Metabolism Group, Diabetes and Nutritional Sciences Division, School of Medicine, Franklin-Wilkins Bldg., 150 Stamford St., London, SE1 9NH, UK.
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The nutritional essentiality of zinc for the growth of living organisms had been recognized long before zinc biochemistry began with the discovery of zinc in carbonic anhydrase in 1939. Painstaking analytical work then demonstrated the presence of zinc as a catalytic and structural cofactor in a few hundred enzymes. In the 1980s, the field again gained momentum with the new principle of "zinc finger" proteins, in which zinc has structural functions in domains that interact with other biomolecules. Advances in structural biology and a rapid increase in the availability of gene/protein databases now made it possible to predict zinc-binding sites from metal-binding motifs detected in sequences. This procedure resulted in the definition of zinc proteomes and the remarkable estimate that the human genome encodes ∼3000 zinc proteins. More recent developments focus on the regulatory functions of zinc(II) ions in intra- and intercellular information transfer and have tantalizing implications for yet additional functions of zinc in signal transduction and cellular control. At least three dozen proteins homeostatically control the vesicular storage and subcellular distribution of zinc and the concentrations of zinc(II) ions. Novel principles emerge from quantitative investigations on how strongly zinc interacts with proteins and how it is buffered to control the remarkably low cellular and subcellular concentrations of free zinc(II) ions. It is fair to conclude that the impact of zinc for health and disease will be at least as far-reaching as that of iron.
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- Wolfgang Maret
- King's College London, Metal Metabolism Group, Division of Diabetes and Nutritional Sciences, School of Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
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The vast knowledge of the physiologic functions of zinc in at least 3000 proteins and the recent recognition of fundamental regulatory functions of zinc(II) ions released from cells or within cells links this nutritionally essential metal ion to numerous diseases. However, this knowledge so far has had remarkably limited impact on diagnosing, preventing, and treating human diseases. One major roadblock is a lack of suitable biomarkers that would detect changes in cellular zinc metabolism and relate them to specific disease outcomes. It is not only the right amount of zinc in the diet that maintains health. At least as important is the proper functioning of the dozens of proteins that control cellular zinc homeostasis, regulate intracellular traffic of zinc between the cytosol and vesicles/organelles, and determine the fluctuations of signaling zinc(II) ions. Cellular zinc deficiencies or overloads, a term referring to zinc concentrations exceeding the cellular zinc buffering capacity, compromise the redox balance. Zinc supplementation may not readily remedy zinc deficiency if other factors limit the capability of a cell to control zinc. The role of zinc in human diseases requires a general understanding of the wide spectrum of functions of zinc, how zinc is controlled, how it interacts with the metabolism of other metal ions, in particular copper and iron, and how perturbation of specific zinc-dependent molecular processes causes disease and influences the progression of disease.
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Maret W. New perspectives of zinc coordination environments in proteins. J Inorg Biochem 2011; 111:110-6. [PMID: 22196021 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2011.11.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2011] [Revised: 10/21/2011] [Accepted: 11/08/2011] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Zinc is more widely used as a cofactor in proteins than any other transition metal ion. In addition to catalytic and structural functions, zinc(II) ions have a role in information transfer and cellular control. They bind transiently when proteins regulate zinc concentrations and re-distribute zinc and when proteins are regulated by zinc. Transient zinc-binding sites employ the same donors of amino acid side chains as catalytic and structural sites but differ in their coordination chemistry that can modulate zinc affinities over at least ten orders of magnitude. Redox activity of the cysteine ligands, multiple binding modes of the oxygen, sulfur and nitrogen donors, and protein conformational changes induce coordination dynamics in zinc sites and zinc ion mobility. Functional annotations of the remarkable variation of coordination environments in zinc proteomes need to consider how the primary coordination spheres interact with protein structure and dynamics, and the adaptation of coordination properties to the biological context in extracellular, cellular, or subcellular locations.
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Affiliation(s)
- Wolfgang Maret
- Metal Metabolism Group, Diabetes and Nutritional Sciences Division, School of Medicine, King's College London, London, UK
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Colvin RA, Holmes WR, Fontaine CP, Maret W. Cytosolic zinc buffering and muffling: their role in intracellular zinc homeostasis. Metallomics 2010; 2:306-17. [PMID: 21069178 DOI: 10.1039/b926662c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 315] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Our knowledge of the molecular mechanisms of intracellular homeostatic control of zinc ions is now firmly grounded on experimental findings gleaned from the study of zinc proteomes and metallomes, zinc transporters, and insights from the use of computational approaches. A cell's repertoire of zinc homeostatic molecules includes cytosolic zinc-binding proteins, transporters localized to cytoplasmic and organellar membranes, and sensors of cytoplasmic free zinc ions. Under steady state conditions, a primary function of cytosolic zinc-binding proteins is to buffer the relatively large zinc content found in most cells to a cytosolic zinc(ii) ion concentration in the picomolar range. Under non-steady state conditions, zinc-binding proteins and transporters act in concert to modulate transient changes in cytosolic zinc ion concentration in a process that is called zinc muffling. For example, if a cell is challenged by an influx of zinc ions, muffling reactions will dampen the resulting rise in cytosolic zinc ion concentration and eventually restore the cytosolic zinc ion concentration to its original value by shuttling zinc ions into subcellular stores or by removing zinc ions from the cell. In addition, muffling reactions provide a potential means to control changes in cytosolic zinc ion concentrations for purposes of cell signalling in what would otherwise be considered a buffered environment not conducive for signalling. Such intracellular zinc ion signals are known to derive from redox modifications of zinc-thiolate coordination environments, release from subcellular zinc stores, and zinc ion influx via channels. Recently, it has been discovered that metallothionein binds its seven zinc ions with different affinities. This property makes metallothionein particularly well positioned to participate in zinc buffering and muffling reactions. In addition, it is well established that metallothionein is a source of zinc ions under conditions of redox signalling. We suggest that the biological functions of transient changes in cytosolic zinc ion concentrations (presumptive zinc signals) complement those of calcium ions in both spatial and temporal dimensions.
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- Robert A Colvin
- Department of Biological Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701, USA.
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Maret W. Metalloproteomics, metalloproteomes, and the annotation of metalloproteins. Metallomics 2010; 2:117-25. [DOI: 10.1039/b915804a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Affiliation(s)
- Wolfgang Maret
- Department of Preventive Medicine & Community Health, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas 77555-1109, USA.
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Daithankar VN, Farrell SR, Thorpe C. Augmenter of liver regeneration: substrate specificity of a flavin-dependent oxidoreductase from the mitochondrial intermembrane space. Biochemistry 2009; 48:4828-37. [PMID: 19397338 DOI: 10.1021/bi900347v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Augmenter of liver regeneration (ALR) is both a growth factor and a sulfhydryl oxidase that binds FAD in an unusual helix-rich domain containing a redox-active CxxC disulfide proximal to the flavin ring. In addition to the cytokine form of ALR (sfALR) that circulates in serum, a longer form, lfALR, is believed to participate in oxidative trapping of reduced proteins entering the mitochondrial intermembrane space (IMS). This longer form has an 80-residue N-terminal extension containing an additional, distal, CxxC motif. This work presents the first enzymological characterization of human lfALR. The N-terminal region conveys no catalytic advantage toward the oxidation of the model substrate dithiothreitol (DTT). In addition, a C71A or C74A mutation of the distal disulfide does not increase the turnover number toward DTT. Unlike Erv1p, the yeast homologue of lfALR, static spectrophotometric experiments with the human oxidase provide no evidence of communication between distal and proximal disulfides. An N-terminal His-tagged version of human Mia40, a resident oxidoreductase of the IMS and a putative physiological reductant of lfALR, was subcloned and expressed in Escherichia coli BL21 DE3 cells. Mia40, as isolated, shows a visible spectrum characteristic of an Fe-S center and contains 0.56 +/- 0.02 atom of iron per subunit. Treatment of Mia40 with guanidine hydrochloride and triscarboxyethylphosphine hydrochloride during purification removed this chromophore. The resulting protein, with a reduced CxC motif, was a good substrate of lfALR. However, neither sfALR nor lfALR mutants lacking the distal disulfide could oxidize reduced Mia40 efficiently. Thus, catalysis involves a flow of reducing equivalents from the reduced CxC motif of Mia40 to distal and then proximal CxxC motifs of lfALR to the flavin ring and, finally, to cytochrome c or molecular oxygen.
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- Vidyadhar N Daithankar
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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Molecular aspects of human cellular zinc homeostasis: redox control of zinc potentials and zinc signals. Biometals 2009; 22:149-57. [DOI: 10.1007/s10534-008-9186-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 193] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2008] [Accepted: 12/07/2008] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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