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Xinastle-Castillo LO, Landa A. Physiological and modulatory role of thioredoxins in the cellular function. Open Med (Wars) 2022; 17:2021-2035. [PMID: 36568514 PMCID: PMC9746700 DOI: 10.1515/med-2022-0596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2022] [Revised: 10/10/2022] [Accepted: 10/11/2022] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Thioredoxins (TRXs) are a class of ubiquitous and multifunctional protein. Mammal cells present three isoforms: a cytosolic and extracellular called thioredoxin 1 (TRX1), a mitochondrial (TRX2), and one specific in spermatozoids (TRX3). Besides, a truncated form called TRX80 exists, which results from the post-translational cleavage performed on TRX1. TRXs' main function is to maintain the reduction-oxidation homeostasis of the cell, reducing the proteins through a thiol-disulfide exchange that depends on two cysteines located in the active site of the protein (Cys32-X-X-Cys35 in humans). In addition, TRX1 performs S-nitrosylation, a post-translational modification of proteins that depends on cysteines of its C-terminal region (Cys62, Cys69, and Cys73 in human TRX1). These modifications allow the TRXs to modulate the protein function and participate in regulating diverse cellular processes, such as oxidative stress, transcription, signaling cascades, apoptosis, inflammation, and immunologic response. This points out the crucial relevance of TRXs for cell function, signaling it as a strategic target for the treatment of many diseases and its possible use as a therapeutic factor.
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- Luis Omar Xinastle-Castillo
- Departamento de Microbiología y Parasitología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Edificio A, 2o Piso. Ciudad Universitaria, Ciudad de México, 04510, México
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- Departamento de Microbiología y Parasitología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Edificio A, 2o Piso. Ciudad Universitaria, Ciudad de México, 04510, México
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Gehi BR, Gadhave K, Uversky VN, Giri R. Intrinsic disorder in proteins associated with oxidative stress-induced JNK signaling. Cell Mol Life Sci 2022; 79:202. [PMID: 35325330 PMCID: PMC11073203 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-022-04230-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2021] [Revised: 03/01/2022] [Accepted: 03/03/2022] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) signaling cascade is a mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling pathway that can be activated in response to a wide range of environmental stimuli. Based on the type, degree, and duration of the stimulus, the JNK signaling cascade dictates the fate of the cell by influencing gene expression through its substrate transcription factors. Oxidative stress is a result of a disturbance in the pro-oxidant/antioxidant homeostasis of the cell and is associated with a large number of diseases, such as neurodegenerative disorders, cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and disorders of the immune system, where it activates the JNK signaling pathway. Among different biological roles ascribed to the intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and hybrid proteins containing ordered domains and intrinsically disordered protein regions (IDPRs) are signaling hub functions, as intrinsic disorder allows proteins to undertake multiple interactions, each with a different consequence. In order to ensure precise signaling, the cellular abundance of IDPs is highly regulated, and mutations or changes in abundance of IDPs/IDPRs are often associated with disease. In this study, we have used a combination of six disorder predictors to evaluate the presence of intrinsic disorder in proteins of the oxidative stress-induced JNK signaling cascade, and as per our findings, none of the 18 proteins involved in this pathway are ordered. The highest level of intrinsic disorder was observed in the scaffold proteins, JIP1, JIP2, JIP3; dual specificity phosphatases, MKP5, MKP7; 14-3-3ζ and transcription factor c-Jun. The MAP3Ks, MAP2Ks, MAPKs, TRAFs, and thioredoxin were the proteins that were predicted to be moderately disordered. Furthermore, to characterize the predicted IDPs/IDPRs in the proteins of the JNK signaling cascade, we identified the molecular recognition features (MoRFs), posttranslational modification (PTM) sites, and short linear motifs (SLiMs) associated with the disordered regions. These findings will serve as a foundation for experimental characterization of disordered regions in these proteins, which represents a crucial step for a better understanding of the roles of IDPRs in diseases associated with this important pathway.
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- Bhuvaneshwari R Gehi
- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, VPO Kamand, Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, 175005, India
- Molecular Biophysics Unit (MBU), Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, 560012, India
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- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, VPO Kamand, Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, 175005, India
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- Department of Molecular Medicine and Byrd Alzheimer's Research Institute, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA.
- Laboratory of New Methods in Biology, Institute for Biological Instrumentation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Federal Research Center "Pushchino Scientific Center for Biological Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences", Pushchino, Moscow region, 142290, Russia.
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- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, VPO Kamand, Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, 175005, India.
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Chatterji A, Sengupta R. Cellular S-denitrosylases: Potential role and interplay of Thioredoxin, TRP14, and Glutaredoxin systems in thiol-dependent protein denitrosylation. Int J Biochem Cell Biol 2021; 131:105904. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biocel.2020.105904] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2020] [Revised: 12/11/2020] [Accepted: 12/14/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Hopkins BL, Neumann CA. Redoxins as gatekeepers of the transcriptional oxidative stress response. Redox Biol 2019; 21:101104. [PMID: 30690320 PMCID: PMC6351230 DOI: 10.1016/j.redox.2019.101104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2018] [Revised: 01/08/2019] [Accepted: 01/09/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Transcription factors control the rate of transcription of genetic information from DNA to messenger RNA, by binding specific DNA sequences in promoter regions. Transcriptional gene control is a rate-limiting process that is tightly regulated and based on transient environmental signals which are translated into long-term changes in gene transcription. Post-translational modifications (PTMs) on transcription factors by phosphorylation or acetylation have profound effects not only on sub-cellular localization but also on substrate specificity through changes in DNA binding capacity. During times of cellular stress, specific transcription factors are in place to help protect the cell from damage by initiating the transcription of antioxidant response genes. Here we discuss PTMs caused by reactive oxygen species (ROS), such as H2O2, that can expeditiously regulate the activation of transcription factors involved in the oxidative stress response. Part of this rapid regulation are proteins involved in H2O2-related reduction and oxidation (redox) reactions such as redoxins, H2O2 scavengers described to interact with transcription factors. Redoxins have highly reactive cysteines of rate constants around 6–10−1 s−1 that engage in nucleophilic substitution of a thiol-disulfide with another thiol in inter-disulfide exchange reactions. We propose here that H2O2 signal transduction induced inter-disulfide exchange reactions between redoxin cysteines and cysteine thiols of transcription factors to allow for rapid and precise on and off switching of transcription factor activity. Thus, redoxins are essential modulators of stress response pathways beyond H2O2 scavenging capacity.
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- Barbara L Hopkins
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA; Women's Cancer Research Center, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA; Magee-Women's Research Institute, Magee-Women's Research Hospital of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
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- Department of Pharmacology & Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA; Women's Cancer Research Center, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA; Magee-Women's Research Institute, Magee-Women's Research Hospital of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
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Yodoi J, Matsuo Y, Tian H, Masutani H, Inamoto T. Anti-Inflammatory Thioredoxin Family Proteins for Medicare, Healthcare and Aging Care. Nutrients 2017; 9:nu9101081. [PMID: 28961169 PMCID: PMC5691698 DOI: 10.3390/nu9101081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2017] [Revised: 09/19/2017] [Accepted: 09/25/2017] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Human thioredoxin (TRX) is a 12-kDa protein with redox-active dithiol in the active site -Cys-Gly-Pro-Cys-, which is induced by biological stress due to oxidative damage, metabolic dysfunction, chemicals, infection/inflammation, irradiation, or hypoxia/ischemia-reperfusion. Our research has demonstrated that exogenous TRX is effective in a wide variety of inflammatory diseases, including viral pneumonia, acute lung injury, gastric injury, and dermatitis, as well as in the prevention and amelioration of food allergies. Preclinical and clinical studies using recombinant TRX (rhTRX) are now underway. We have also identified substances that induce the expression of TRX in the body, in vegetables and other plant ingredients. Skincare products are being developed that take advantage of the anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic action of TRX. Furthermore, we are currently engaged in the highly efficient production of pure rhTRX in several plants, such as lettuce, grain and rice.
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- Junji Yodoi
- Japan Biostress Research Promotion Alliance (JBPA), 1-6 Shogoin Kawahara-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8397, Japan.
- Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, 53 Shogoin Kawahara-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan.
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- Department of Human Stress Response Science, Institute of Biomedical Science, Kansai Medical University, 2-5-1 Shin-machi, Hirakata, Osaka 573-1010, Japan.
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- Japan Biostress Research Promotion Alliance (JBPA), 1-6 Shogoin Kawahara-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8397, Japan.
- Department of Anatomy, Basic Medicine Science, Medical College, Shaoxing University, No 900 Cengnan Avenue, Shaoxing 312000, China.
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- Terni Health Care University, 80-1 Bessho-cho, Tenri, Nara 632-0018, Japan.
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- Japan Biostress Research Promotion Alliance (JBPA), 1-6 Shogoin Kawahara-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8397, Japan.
- Terni Health Care University, 80-1 Bessho-cho, Tenri, Nara 632-0018, Japan.
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Mahmood DFD, Abderrazak A, El Hadri K, Simmet T, Rouis M. The thioredoxin system as a therapeutic target in human health and disease. Antioxid Redox Signal 2013; 19:1266-303. [PMID: 23244617 DOI: 10.1089/ars.2012.4757] [Citation(s) in RCA: 223] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The thioredoxin (Trx) system comprises Trx, truncated Trx (Trx-80), Trx reductase, and NADPH, besides a natural Trx inhibitor, the thioredoxin-interacting protein (TXNIP). This system is essential for maintaining the balance of the cellular redox status, and it is involved in the regulation of redox signaling. It is also pivotal for growth promotion, neuroprotection, inflammatory modulation, antiapoptosis, immune function, and atherosclerosis. As an ubiquitous and multifunctional protein, Trx is expressed in all forms of life, executing its function through its antioxidative, protein-reducing, and signal-transducing activities. In this review, the biological properties of the Trx system are highlighted, and its implications in several human diseases are discussed, including cardiovascular diseases, heart failure, stroke, inflammation, metabolic syndrome, neurodegenerative diseases, arthritis, and cancer. The last chapter addresses the emerging therapeutic approaches targeting the Trx system in human diseases.
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Regulation of the human thioredoxin gene promoter and its key substrates: a study of functional and putative regulatory elements. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2013; 1840:303-14. [PMID: 24041992 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2013.09.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2013] [Revised: 07/26/2013] [Accepted: 09/06/2013] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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BACKGROUND The thioredoxin system maintains redox balance through the action of thioredoxin and thioredoxin reductase. Thioredoxin regulates the activity of various substrates, including those that function to counteract cellular oxidative stress. These include the peroxiredoxins, methionine sulfoxide reductase A and specific transcription factors. Of particular relevance is Redox Factor-1, which in turn activates other redox-regulated transcription factors. SCOPE OF REVIEW Experimentally defined transcription factor binding sites in the human thioredoxin and thioredoxin reductase gene promoters together with promoters of the major thioredoxin system substrates involved in regulating cellular redox status are discussed. An in silico approach was used to identify potential putative binding sites for these transcription factors in all of these promoters. MAJOR CONCLUSIONS Our analysis reveals that many redox gene promoters contain the same transcription factor binding sites. Several of these transcription factors are in turn redox regulated. The ARE is present in several of these promoters and is bound by Nrf2 during various oxidative stress stimuli to upregulate gene expression. Other transcription factors also bind to these promoters during the same oxidative stress stimuli, with this redundancy supporting the importance of the antioxidant response. Putative transcription factor sites were identified in silico, which in combination with specific regulatory knowledge for that gene promoter may inform future experiments. GENERAL SIGNIFICANCE Redox proteins are involved in many cellular signalling pathways and aberrant expression can lead to disease or other pathological conditions. Therefore understanding how their expression is regulated is relevant for developing therapeutic agents that target these pathways.
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Song C, Cui Z, Liu Y, Wang S, Li Q. First report of two thioredoxin homologues in crustaceans: molecular characterization, genomic organization and expression pattern in swimming crab Portunus trituberculatus. FISH & SHELLFISH IMMUNOLOGY 2012; 32:855-861. [PMID: 22365991 DOI: 10.1016/j.fsi.2012.02.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2011] [Revised: 02/09/2012] [Accepted: 02/09/2012] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Previously, we had reported two homologues of the thioredoxin (Trx) super-family (PtTrx1 and PtTrx2) identified from eyestalk and haemocytes cDNA library of swimming crab Portunus trituberculatus, respectively. It was the first report of two thioredoxin homologues from the same crustacean species. Here, we focused on the molecular characterization, genomic organization and expression pattern of PtTrx1 and PtTrx2. The full-length cDNA sequences of PtTrx1 and PtTrx2 were 739 and 1300 bp, encoding 105 and 133 amino acids, respectively. They both had a conserved CGPC active site and highly similar tertiary structures, which containing four β-sheets and four α-helixes. Specifically, PtTrx2 was encoded by a nuclear gene and its cellular localization was targeted to mitochondria by an N-terminal mitochondrial pre-sequence. Sequence analysis revealed PtTrx1 and PtTrx2 were encoded by different genomic locus. As the first analyzed genomic structure of PtTrxs in crustaceans, two introns with microsatellites were found in the open reading frame region of these genes. Quantitative real-time PCR analysis revealed the mRNA expression of PtTrx1 transcripts were mainly detected in gill, while, PtTrx2 in eyestalk and gill. The temporal expression levels of PtTrxs transcripts in haemocytes showed different expression patterns after challenge with Vibrio alginolyticus, Micrococcus luteus and Pichia pastoris. These results together indicate that PtTrxs should be involved in the responses to pathogen challenge of P. trituberculatus.
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- Chengwen Song
- EMBL, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
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Karlenius TC, Shah F, Yu WC, Hawkes HJK, Tinggi U, Clarke FM, Tonissen KF. The selenium content of cell culture serum influences redox-regulated gene expression. Biotechniques 2011; 50:295-301. [PMID: 21548891 DOI: 10.2144/000113666] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2011] [Accepted: 03/09/2011] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Yoshihara E, Chen Z, Matsuo Y, Masutani H, Yodoi J. Thiol redox transitions by thioredoxin and thioredoxin-binding protein-2 in cell signaling. Methods Enzymol 2010; 474:67-82. [PMID: 20609905 DOI: 10.1016/s0076-6879(10)74005-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The cellular thiol redox state is a crucial mediator of metabolic, signaling and transcriptional processes in cells, and an exquisite balance between the oxidizing and reducing states is essential for the normal function and survival of cells. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are widely known to function as a kind of second messenger for intracellular signaling and to modulate the thiol redox state. Thiol reduction is mainly controlled by the thioredoxin (TRX) system and glutathione (GSH) systems as scavengers of ROS and regulators of the protein redox states. The thioredoxin system is composed of several related molecules interacting through the cysteine residues at the active site, including thioredoxin, thioredoxin-2, a mitochondrial thioredoxin family, and transmembrane thioredoxin-related protein (TMX), an endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-specific thioredoxin family. Thioredoxin couples with thioredoxin-dependent peroxidases (peroxiredoxin) to scavenge hydrogen peroxide. In addition, thioredoxin does not simply act only as a scavenger of ROS but also as an important regulator of oxidative stress response through protein-protein interaction. The interaction of thioredoxin and thioredoxin-binding proteins such as thioredoxin-binding protein-2 (TBP-2, also called as Txnip or VDUP1), apoptosis signal kinase (ASK-1), redox factor 1 (Ref-1), Forkhead box class O 4 (FoxO4), and nod-like receptor proteins (NLRPs) suggested unconventional functions of thioredoxin and a novel mechanism of redox regulation. Here, we introduce the central mechanism of thiol redox transition in cell signaling regulated by thioredoxin and related molecules.
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- Eiji Yoshihara
- Department of Biological Responses, Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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Kim SH, Oh J, Choi JY, Jang JY, Kang MW, Lee CE. Identification of human thioredoxin as a novel IFN-gamma-induced factor: mechanism of induction and its role in cytokine production. BMC Immunol 2008; 9:64. [PMID: 18983687 PMCID: PMC2596082 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2172-9-64] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2008] [Accepted: 11/05/2008] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Background IFN-γ is a multifunctional peptide with a potent immune defense function which is also known as a prototypic Th1 cytokine. While screening for genes differentially expressed by Th1 and Th2 cytokines, human thioredoxin was identified as a novel target gene induced by IFN-γ. The mechanism by which thioredoxin is induced by IFN-γ and the signaling pathways involved in its induction were analyzed. In addition, the effects of thioredoxin on immune cell survival and cytokine production were examined by thioredoxin over-expression and recombinant thioredoxin treatment. Results Human thioredoxin was selectively induced by IFN-γ in monocytic and T cell lines. In monocytic cells, the induction of thioredoxin gene expression by IFN-γ was dose-dependent, and both the mRNA and protein levels were increased by 2~3 fold within 4 to 24 h hours of IFN-γ treatment. The thioredoxin induction by IFN-γ was insensitive to cycloheximide treatment, suggesting that it is a primary response gene induced by IFN-γ. Subsequent analysis of the signaling pathways indicated that the Jak/Stat, Akt, and Erk pathways play a role in IFN-γ signaling that leads to thioredoxin gene expression. Thioredoxin was induced by oxidative or radiation stresses, and it protected the immune cells from apoptosis by reducing the levels of reactive oxygen species. Furthermore, thioredoxin modulated the oxidant-induced cytokine balance toward Th1 by counter-regulating the production of IL-4 and IFN-γ in T cells. Conclusion These data suggest that thioredoxin is an IFN-γ-induced factor that may play a role in developing Th1 immunity and in the maintenance of immune homeostasis upon infection, radiation, and oxidative stress.
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- Seol-Hee Kim
- Laboratory of Immunology, Department of Biological Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea.
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Kondo N, Ishii Y, Kwon YW, Tanito M, Sakakura-Nishiyama J, Mochizuki M, Maeda M, Suzuki S, Kojima M, Kim YC, Son A, Nakamura H, Yodoi J. Lipid raft-mediated uptake of cysteine-modified thioredoxin-1: apoptosis enhancement by inhibiting the endogenous thioredoxin-1. Antioxid Redox Signal 2007; 9:1439-48. [PMID: 17627472 DOI: 10.1089/ars.2007.1665] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Thioredoxin-1 (TRX) plays important roles in cellular signaling by controlling the redox state of cysteine residues in target proteins. TRX is released in response to oxidative stress and shows various biologic functions from the extracellular environment. However, the mechanism by which extracellular TRX transduces the signal into the cells remains unclear. Here we report that the cysteine modification at the active site of TRX promotes the internalization of TRX into the cells. TRX-C35S, in which the cysteine at residue 35 of the active site was replaced with serine, was internalized more effectively than wild-type TRX in human T-cell leukemia virus-transformed T cells. TRX-C35S bound rapidly to the cell surface and was internalized into the cells dependent on lipid rafts in the plasma membrane. This process was inhibited by wild-type TRX, reducing reagents such as dithiothreitol, and methyl-beta-cyclodextrin, which disrupts lipid rafts. Moreover, the internalized TRX-C35S binds to endogenous TRX, resulting in the generation of intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) and enhanced cis-diamine-dichloroplatinum (II) (CDDP)-induced apoptosis via a ROS-mediated pathway involving apoptosis signal-regulating kinase-1 (ASK-1) activation. These findings suggest that the cysteine at the active site of TRX plays a key role in the internalization and signal transduction of extracellular TRX into the cells.
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- Norihiko Kondo
- Department of Biological Responses, Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, and Thioredoxin Project, Translational Research Center Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan.
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Osborne S, Hawkes HJ, Baldwin B, Alexander K, Svingen T, Clarke F, Tonissen K. The tert-butylhydroquinone-mediated activation of the human thioredoxin gene reveals a novel promoter structure. Biochem J 2006; 398:269-77. [PMID: 16712525 PMCID: PMC1550307 DOI: 10.1042/bj20060076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Thioredoxin is a redox-active protein that plays multiple roles in regulating cell growth, cell signalling and apoptosis. Here, we have demonstrated that a complex mechanism involving multiple regulatory elements is involved in the tBHQ [tert-butylhydroquinone or 2,5-di-(t-butyl)-1,4-hydroquinone]-mediated activation of the thioredoxin gene. Luciferase assays, utilizing various wild-type and mutated thioredoxin promoter fragments, revealed roles for the ORE (oxidative stress responsive element), ARE (antioxidant responsive element), three Sp1 (specificity protein 1)-binding sites and the TATA box in the activation of the thioredoxin gene by tBHQ. The ORE required the presence of the ARE to elicit its response, whereas the independent removal of three Sp1-binding sites and the TATA box also decreased activation of the thioredoxin gene, with mutation of the TATA box having the greatest effect. Real-time RT (reverse transcriptase)-PCR analysis also revealed varying roles for two TSSs (transcription start sites) in the activation of the thioredoxin gene by tBHQ. Transcription was initiated from both TSSs; however, different response rates and fold inductions were observed. Together, these results suggest that the thioredoxin gene is controlled by a novel arrangement of two overlapping core promoter regions, one containing a TATA box and the other TATA-less. Altering the intracellular levels of thioredoxin in a breast cancer cell line also influenced the induction of thioredoxin transcription in response to tBHQ. Stable transfections with a redox-inactive thioredoxin mutant produced 3.6 times higher induction levels of thioredoxin transcription compared with control cells, indicating an intrinsic form of control of promoter activity by the thioredoxin system itself.
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- Simone A. Osborne
- Cell Biology Group, Eskitis Institute for Cell and Molecular Therapies and School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD 4111, Australia
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- Cell Biology Group, Eskitis Institute for Cell and Molecular Therapies and School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD 4111, Australia
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- Cell Biology Group, Eskitis Institute for Cell and Molecular Therapies and School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD 4111, Australia
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- Cell Biology Group, Eskitis Institute for Cell and Molecular Therapies and School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD 4111, Australia
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- Cell Biology Group, Eskitis Institute for Cell and Molecular Therapies and School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD 4111, Australia
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- Cell Biology Group, Eskitis Institute for Cell and Molecular Therapies and School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD 4111, Australia
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- Cell Biology Group, Eskitis Institute for Cell and Molecular Therapies and School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD 4111, Australia
- To whom correspondence should be addressed (email )
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Bloomfield KL, Osborne SA, Kennedy DD, Clarke FM, Tonissen KF. Thioredoxin-mediated redox control of the transcription factor Sp1 and regulation of the thioredoxin gene promoter. Gene 2004; 319:107-16. [PMID: 14597176 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1119(03)00799-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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In recent years, redox control has emerged as a fundamental mechanism of gene regulation through transcriptional control. Thioredoxin (Trx) is a dithiol-reducing enzyme known to be involved in the redox regulation of a number of transcription factors, and in this study, we have investigated the redox-dependent regulation of the DNA binding activity of Sp1 by thioredoxin. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays were used to show that both recombinant Sp1 produced in Escherichia coli and endogenous Sp1 expressed by MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells is subject to redox regulation. We found that thioredoxin alone or in conjunction with the full thioredoxin system (comprising thioredoxin, thioredoxin reductase [TR], and alpha-nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate [NADPH]) can increase Sp1 DNA binding activity in vitro to an oligonucleotide containing the Sp1 consensus sequence. Furthermore, we have provided evidence that recombinant Sp1 can bind to Sp1 consensus sequences within a 330-base pair (bp) thioredoxin promoter fragment and that this interaction can also be enhanced by the presence of thioredoxin. Luciferase reporter assays using this same minimal thioredoxin promoter region demonstrated that both Sp1 and Sp3 can bind to the promoter and act to enhance transcription. When the three identified Sp1 consensus sequences within the reporter construct were deleted, there was a loss of basal promoter activity, showing that these closely positioned sites are important for regulation of thioredoxin gene expression.
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- Kelly L Bloomfield
- School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, Griffith University, Nathan, Qld, 4111, Australia.
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Blaskó B, Mádi A, Fésüs L. Thioredoxin motif of Caenorhabditis elegans PDI-3 provides Cys and His catalytic residues for transglutaminase activity. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2003; 303:1142-7. [PMID: 12684055 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-291x(03)00490-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Previous reports have suggested that protein disulfide isomerases (PDIs) have transglutaminase (TGase) activity. The structural basis of this reaction has not been revealed. We demonstrate here that Caenorhabditis elegans PDI-3 can function as a Ca(2+)-dependent TGase in assays based on modification of protein- and peptide-bound glutamine residues. By site-directed mutagenesis the second cysteine residue of the -CysGlyHisCys- motif in the thioredoxin domain of the enzyme protein was found to be the active site of the transamidation reaction and chemical modification of histidine in their motif blocked TGase activity.
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- Bernadett Blaskó
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Medical and Health Science Center, University of Debrecen, POB 6, Hungary
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Jiménez A, Miranda-Vizuete A. Purification and characterization of delta3Trx-1, a splicing variant of human thioredoxin-1 lacking exon 3. Protein Expr Purif 2003; 27:319-24. [PMID: 12597892 DOI: 10.1016/s1046-5928(02)00607-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Thioredoxins comprise a growing family of proteins that function as general protein-disulfide reductases and are maintained in their reduced active form by the flavoenzyme thioredoxin reductase. Human Trx-1 is mainly a cytosolic protein, although it has been shown to translocate into the nucleus upon certain stimuli and can also be secreted. We report here the expression and characterization of delta3Trx-1, a splicing variant of human Trx-1, lacking exon 3, which spans from residues 44 to 63 in the wild-type protein. Structure-based prediction of this splicing form indicates that delta3Trx-1 lacks helix alpha2 and strand beta3, which are implicated in substrate positioning and three-dimensional stabilization of the active site residues. Recombinant human delta3Trx-1 is recognized by polyclonal antibodies raised against full-length human Trx-1. However, delta3Trx-1 retains no enzymatic activity either with DTT or thioredoxin reductase and NADPH as reducing systems. Delta3Trx-1 competes with full-length Trx-1 for the interaction with thioredoxin reductase. The absence of helix alpha2 and strand beta3 in delta3Trx-1 is consistent with the lack of enzymatic activity and its potential dominant negative properties.
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MESH Headings
- Active Transport, Cell Nucleus
- Alternative Splicing
- Binding Sites
- Blotting, Western
- Cytosol/metabolism
- DNA, Complementary/metabolism
- Dithiothreitol/pharmacology
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
- Exons
- Genes, Dominant
- Humans
- Membrane Proteins/chemistry
- Membrane Proteins/genetics
- Membrane Proteins/isolation & purification
- Models, Genetic
- Models, Molecular
- Protein Conformation
- Protein Structure, Tertiary
- Recombinant Proteins/chemistry
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Thioredoxins/chemistry
- Thioredoxins/genetics
- Thioredoxins/isolation & purification
- Time Factors
- Tissue Distribution
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
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- Alberto Jiménez
- Department of Biosciences at NOVUM, Center for Biotechnology, Karolinska Institutet, S-14157 Huddinge, Sweden
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- Yumiko Nishinaka
- Human Stress Signal Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ikeda, Osaka 563-8577, Japan
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Chang WH, Reddy SPM, Di YPP, Yoneda K, Harper R, Wu R. Regulation of thioredoxin gene expression by vitamin A in human airway epithelial cells. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 2002; 26:627-35. [PMID: 11970916 DOI: 10.1165/ajrcmb.26.5.4276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Human thioredoxin (Trx) is a 12-kD protein known to be involved in various reduction/oxidation reactions essential for cell growth and cellular injury repair. We previously demonstrated, based on nuclear run-on assay, that retinoic acid (RA) stimulated Trx gene expression in airway epithelial cells at the transcriptional level. Nucleotide sequencing of the 5'-flanking region of the human Trx gene revealed the presence of a TATA box at -28 and four RA response element (RARE)-like half sites at -426, -453, -507, and -626 nt. Transient transfection assays with a Trx promoter-reporter gene, chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT), demonstrated a dose-dependent involvement of these four RARE-like half sites in RA-enhanced promoter activity. When the DNA fragment that flanks these four RARE-like half sites from -357 to -671 nt was introduced into a heterologous promoter of the tk-CAT2 vector, both basal and RA-stimulated CAT activities were observed. A site-directed mutagenesis approach demonstrated an essential role for RARE-I and RARE-II at -426 and -453 nt, respectively, and an auxiliary role for RARE-III at -507 nt in both basal and RA-stimulated CAT activities. Both in vivo and in vitro genomic footprinting experiments further demonstrated specific protein-DNA interactions in these "putative" RARE-I/II/III half sites. Gel electrophoretic mobility shift assays demonstrated specific interactions of these RARE-like half sites with the nuclear extracts obtained from RA-treated cultures. The anti-RAR-alpha antibody super-shift experiment further confirmed the interactions of RARE-I/II sites with RAR-alpha nuclear receptor. These results suggest a classic RARE/RAR interaction involved in RA-stimulated Trx gene expression in human airway epithelium.
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- Wen-Hsing Chang
- Center for Comparative Respiratory Biology and Medicine, University of California at Davis, Davis, California 95616, USA
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Osborne SA, Tonissen KF. Genomic organisation and alternative splicing of mouse and human thioredoxin reductase 1 genes. BMC Genomics 2001; 2:10. [PMID: 11737861 PMCID: PMC60534 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-2-10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2001] [Accepted: 11/22/2001] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Thioredoxin reductase (TR) is a redox active protein involved in many cellular processes as part of the thioredoxin system. Presently there are three recognised forms of mammalian thioredoxin reductase designated as TR1, TR3 and TGR, that represent the cytosolic, mitochondrial and novel forms respectively. In this study we elucidated the genomic organisation of the mouse (Txnrd1) and human thioredoxin reductase 1 genes (TXNRD1) through library screening, restriction mapping and database mining. RESULTS The human TXNRD1 gene spans 100 kb of genomic DNA organised into 16 exons and the mouse Txnrd1 gene has a similar exon/intron arrangement. We also analysed the alternative splicing patterns displayed by the mouse and human thioredoxin reductase 1 genes and mapped the different mRNA isoforms with respect to genomic organisation. These isoforms differ at the 5' end and encode putative proteins of different molecular mass. Genomic DNA sequences upstream of mouse exon 1 were compared to the human promoter to identify conserved elements. CONCLUSIONS The human and mouse thioredoxin reductase 1 gene organisation is highly conserved and both genes exhibit alternative splicing at the 5' end. The mouse and human promoters share some conserved sequences.
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- Simone A Osborne
- School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland 4111, Australia
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- School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland 4111, Australia
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Miranda-Vizuete A, Ljung J, Damdimopoulos AE, Gustafsson JA, Oko R, Pelto-Huikko M, Spyrou G. Characterization of Sptrx, a novel member of the thioredoxin family specifically expressed in human spermatozoa. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:31567-74. [PMID: 11399755 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m101760200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Thioredoxins (Trx) are small ubiquitous proteins that participate in different cellular processes via redox-mediated reactions. We report here the identification and characterization of a novel member of the thioredoxin family in humans, named Sptrx (sperm-specific trx), the first with a tissue-specific distribution, located exclusively in spermatozoa. Sptrx open reading frame encodes for a protein of 486 amino acids composed of two clear domains: an N-terminal domain consisting of 23 highly conserved repetitions of a 15-residue motif and a C-terminal domain typical of thioredoxins. Northern analysis and in situ hybridization shows that Sptrx mRNA is only expressed in human testis, specifically in round and elongating spermatids. Immunostaining of human testis sections identified Sptrx protein in spermatids, while immunofluorescence and immunogold electron microscopy analysis demonstrated Sptrx localization in the cytoplasmic droplet of ejaculated sperm. Sptrx appears to have a multimeric structure in native conditions and is able to reduce insulin disulfide bonds in the presence of NADPH and thioredoxin reductase. During mammalian spermiogenesis in testis seminiferous tubules and later maturation in epididymis, extensive reorganization of disulfide bonds is required to stabilize cytoskeletal sperm structures. However, the molecular mechanisms that control these processes are not known. The identification of Sptrx with an expression pattern restricted to the postmeiotic phase of spermatogenesis, when the sperm tail is organized, suggests that Sptrx might be an important factor in regulating critical steps of human spermiogenesis.
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- A Miranda-Vizuete
- Department of Biosciences at Novum, Center for Biotechnology, Karolinska Institute, S-141 57 Huddinge, Sweden.
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Powis G, Montfort WR. Properties and biological activities of thioredoxins. ANNUAL REVIEW OF BIOPHYSICS AND BIOMOLECULAR STRUCTURE 2001; 30:421-55. [PMID: 11441809 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.30.1.421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 254] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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The mammalian thioredoxins are a family of small (approximately 12 kDa) redox proteins that undergo NADPH-dependent reduction by thioredoxin reductase and in turn reduce oxidized cysteine groups on proteins. The two main thioredoxins are thioredoxin- 1, a cytosolic and nuclear form, and thioredoxin-2, a mitochondrial form. Thioredoxin-1 has been studied more. It performs many biological actions including the supply of reducing equivalents to thioredoxin peroxidases and ribonucleotide reductase, the regulation of transcription factor activity, and the regulation of enzyme activity by heterodimer formation. Thioredoxin-1 stimulates cell growth and is an inhibitor of apoptosis. Thioredoxins may play a role in a variety of human diseases including cancer. An increased level of thioredoxin-1 is found in many human tumors, where it is associated with aggressive tumor growth. Drugs are being developed that inhibit thioredoxin and that have antitumor activity.
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- G Powis
- Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85724-5024, USA.
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The mammalian thioredoxins are a family of small (approximately 12 kDa) redox proteins that undergo NADPH-dependent reduction by thioredoxin reductase and in turn reduce oxidized cysteine groups on proteins. The two main thioredoxins are thioredoxin-1, a cytosolic and nuclear form, and thioredoxin-2, a mitochondrial form. Thioredoxin-1 has been studied more. It performs many biological actions including the supply of reducing equivalents to thioredoxin peroxidases and ribonucleotide reductase, the regulation of transcription factor activity, and the regulation of enzyme activity by heterodimer formation. Thioredoxin-1 stimulates cell growth and is an inhibitor of apoptosis. Thioredoxins may play a role in a variety of human diseases including cancer. An increased level of thioredoxin-1 is found in many human tumors, where it is associated with aggressive tumor growth. Drugs are being developed that inhibit thioredoxin and that have antitumor activity.
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- G Powis
- Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85724-5024, USA.
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Kim YC, Masutani H, Yamaguchi Y, Itoh K, Yamamoto M, Yodoi J. Hemin-induced activation of the thioredoxin gene by Nrf2. A differential regulation of the antioxidant responsive element by a switch of its binding factors. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:18399-406. [PMID: 11279008 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m100103200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 226] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Thioredoxin plays an important role in various cellular processes through redox regulation. Here, we have demonstrated that thioredoxin expression is transcriptionally induced in K562 cells by hemin (ferriprotoporphyrin IX) through activation of a regulatory region positioned from -452 to -420 bp of the thioredoxin gene. Insertion of a mutation in the antioxidant responsive element (ARE)/AP-1 consensus binding sequence in this region abolished the response to hemin. With electrophoretic mobility shift and DNA affinity assays, we have shown that the NF-E2p45/small Maf complex constitutively binds to the ARE. The binding of the Nrf2/small Maf complex to ARE was induced by hemin, whereas the binding of Jun/Fos proteins to ARE was induced by phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate, but not hemin. Hemin induced nuclear translocation of Nrf2 but did not affect nuclear expression of Jun/Fos proteins. Overexpression of Nrf2 augmented the response to hemin in a dose-dependent manner. In contrast, overexpression of the dominant negative mutant of Nrf2 suppressed hemin-induced activation through the ARE. We show here hemin-induced activation of the thioredoxin gene by Nrf2 through the ARE and propose a novel mechanism of the regulation of the ARE through a switch of its binding factors.
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- Y C Kim
- Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, 53 Shogoin, Kawahara-cho, Sakyo, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan
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Osborne LJ, Tonissen KF, Tang VH, Clarke FM. Expression and localisation of thioredoxin in mouse reproductive tissues during the oestrous cycle. Mol Reprod Dev 2001; 58:359-67. [PMID: 11241771 DOI: 10.1002/1098-2795(20010401)58:4<359::aid-mrd2>3.0.co;2-k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Thioredoxin expression within the reproductive tissues of the female mouse was analysed during the oestrous cycle stages of dioestrus, oestrus and metoestrus by Western blot analyses and immunocytochemistry. From Western blot analyses the expression of thioredoxin was found to be increased in oestrus compared to dioestrus and metoestrus. Localisation of thioredoxin within the reproductive organs of the mouse during the oestrous cycle has shown that the expression of thioredoxin is specific for distinct areas within the reproductive organs. These areas are the stratified squamous epithelium of the vagina, the simple columnar epithelium and the uterine glands of the uterus, the ciliated columnar epithelium of the oviduct, the corpus lutea, the interstitial cells and the secondary follicles of the ovary. The discrete cellular localisation and oestrous dependence of thioredoxin expression are suggestive of specific roles in various reproductive processes.
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- L J Osborne
- School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, Faculty of Science, Griffith University, Nathan, Qld, Australia
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Miranda-Vizuete A, Spyrou G. Identification of a novel thioredoxin-1 pseudogene on human chromosome 10. DNA SEQUENCE : THE JOURNAL OF DNA SEQUENCING AND MAPPING 2000; 10:411-4. [PMID: 10826700 DOI: 10.3109/10425170009015611] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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- A Miranda-Vizuete
- Department of Biosciences at Novum, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge, Sweden
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Miranda-Vizuete A, Spyrou G. Genomic structure and chromosomal localization of human thioredoxin-like protein gene (txl). DNA SEQUENCE : THE JOURNAL OF DNA SEQUENCING AND MAPPING 2000; 10:419-24. [PMID: 10826702 DOI: 10.3109/10425170009015613] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Human thioredoxin-like protein (txl) is a novel member of the expanding thioredoxin superfamily whose main characteristic is the presence, after the thioredoxin domain, of a C-terminal extension of 184 residues with no homology with any other protein in the databases. Txl is a cytosolic ubiquitously expressed protein and it has been copurified with a kinase of the STE20 family, which is proteolytically activated by caspases in apoptosis. However, no cellular function has yet been assigned to this protein. In the present study we report the genomic organization of the txl gene which encompasses approximately 36 kb organized in eight exons ranging from 96 bp to 303 bp. In contrast, intron sizes are much bigger ranging from 1.5 kb to 12 kb. Chromosomal localization of txl gene revealed that it maps at position 18q21, a region frequently affected in different human tumours. Furthermore, we have identified the putative homologues of txl in both Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans that display much closer homology to the known thioredoxins than the human txl protein. Indeed, critical residues for optimal thioredoxin activity are present in both Drosophila and Caenorhabditis txl but absent in the human protein suggesting that txl might have evolved to carry out a function different from the general disulfide reductase typical of thioredoxins.
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- A Miranda-Vizuete
- Department of Biosciences at Novum, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge, Sweden
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Noda N, Ochiai A, Miyazaki K, Sugimura T, Terada M, Wakasugi H. Detection of thioredoxin in gastric cancer: association with histological type. Antioxid Redox Signal 2000; 2:519-28. [PMID: 11229365 DOI: 10.1089/15230860050192297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Thioredoxin (TRX) is a redox-active protein with multiple intra- and extracellular functions. This protein exists ubiquitously in all life forms, from primitive living cells, such as Escherichia coli and yeast, to higher mammals. Recently, augmentation of the expression and transcription level of TRX has been reported in tumors of various organs. In this study, we examined the expression of TRX in gastric cancer with respect to its histological type and depth of invasion. The association with cell proliferation was also studied. Results of histochemical analysis of surgical specimens as well as cytochemical analysis and Northern blot analysis of gastric cancer cell lines indicated that TRX is predominantly expressed in undifferentiated type gastric cancer rather than in the differentiated type. Neither the depth of tumor invasion nor cell proliferation significantly determined the staining intensity for TRX.
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- N Noda
- Pharmacology Division, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan
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Chalar C, Martínez C, Agorio A, Salinas G, Soto J, Ehrlich R. Molecular cloning and characterization of a thioredoxin gene from Echinococcus granulosus. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1999; 262:302-7. [PMID: 10448109 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1999.1168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The insert of a clone from a lambdagt11 Echinococcus granulosus (Platyhelminth, Cestoda) protoscolex cDNA library, showed an open reading frame whose deduced protein sequence presents a high homology with all described thioredoxins (TRX). The TRX active site (Trp-Cys-Gly-Pro-Cys) is completely conserved. With a monospecific antibody, selected from a total anti-protoscolex sera by the isolated clone, a 12 kDa polypeptide was immunoprecipitated from a protoscolex total protein extract. Furthermore, an antiserum raised against a recombinant EgTRX also recognizes a 12 kDa band in these extracts. The recombinant protein presents TRX activity, using the insulin reduction assay. Finally, a TRX activity was characterized in protoscolex extracts. In all organisms where TRXs were studied, they participate in a cascade of redox exchanges, contributing to the maintaining of cell homeostasis. Considering that the parasitic flatworm E. granulosus is probably submitted to an important oxidative stress due to host defences, EgTRX protein could be involved in the survival strategies of this parasite.
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- C Chalar
- Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Iguá 4225, Montevideo, 11500, Uruguay.
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Maruyama T, Sachi Y, Furuke K, Kitaoka Y, Kanzaki H, Yoshimura Y, Yodoi J. Induction of thioredoxin, a redox-active protein, by ovarian steroid hormones during growth and differentiation of endometrial stromal cells in vitro. Endocrinology 1999; 140:365-72. [PMID: 9886847 DOI: 10.1210/endo.140.1.6455] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Human thioredoxin (hTrx) is a cellular redox-active protein that catalyzes dithiol/disulfide exchange reactions, thus controlling multiple biological functions, including cell growth-promoting activity. Here we show that the expression of hTrx protein and messenger RNA was up-regulated by incubation with 17beta-estradiol (E2) in primary culture of stromal cells isolated from human endometrium. Maximal enhancement of hTrx protein and messenger RNA was observed after 6-12 h of incubation with 10-100 nM E2, and the enhancing effect was suppressed by tamoxifen, an estrogen antagonist. Release of hTrx into the culture medium was markedly augmented after 5-day exposure of E2 plus progesterone (P) accompanied by in vitro differentiation of endometrial stromal cells (decidualization). Immunocytochemical studies showed that hTrx was localized in the nucleus, nucleolus, and cytosol in the stromal cells. Strongly enhanced immunoreactivity for hTrx was observed in the E2-treated cells, whereas there was no apparent difference in the pattern of subcellular localization among the untreated and E2- and/or P-treated cells. Although 1-50 microg/ml recombinant hTrx alone did not promote endometrial stromal cell growth, epidermal growth factor-dependent mitogenesis was additively enhanced by hTrx. Our results indicate that hTrx modulates endometrial cell growth, acting as a comitogenic factor for epidermal growth factor, which is known to be a mediator of estrogen action. It is also suggested that hTrx is deeply involved in the hormonal control of the endometrium by E2 and P, playing a regulatory role in endometrial cell growth and differentiation.
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- T Maruyama
- Department of Biological Responses, Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, Japan
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Hoshi Y, Tanooka H, Miyazaki K, Wakasugi H. Induction of thioredoxin in human lymphocytes with low-dose ionizing radiation. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1997; 1359:65-70. [PMID: 9398086 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4889(97)00085-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Induction of the expression of the thioredoxin (TRX) gene, producing a key protein in regulating cellular functions through redox reaction as well as being a radioprotector, was followed after ionizing irradiation of lymphocytes from human donors. The TRX mRNA level increased to a peak, 5.7-fold higher than the control at maximum, 6 h after irradiation, and then decreased. The optimum radiation dose for enhancement of induction of the TRX mRNA was 0.25 Gy. The TRX protein also increased to a peak, a 3-fold increase at maximum, with the same timing as that for TRX mRNA.
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- Y Hoshi
- Nuclear Energy Systems Department, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Komae-shi, Tokyo, Japan.
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van Drunen CM, Oosterling RW, Keultjes GM, Weisbeek PJ, van Driel R, Smeekens SC. Analysis of the chromatin domain organisation around the plastocyanin gene reveals an MAR-specific sequence element in Arabidopsis thaliana. Nucleic Acids Res 1997; 25:3904-11. [PMID: 9380515 PMCID: PMC146963 DOI: 10.1093/nar/25.19.3904] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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The Arabidopsis thaliana genome is currently being sequenced, eventually leading towards the unravelling of all potential genes. We wanted to gain more insight into the way this genome might be organized at the ultrastructural level. To this extent we identified matrix attachment regions demarking potential chromatin domains, in a 16 kb region around the plastocyanin gene. The region was cloned and sequenced revealing six genes in addition to the plastocyanin gene. Using an heterologous in vitro nuclear matrix binding assay, to search for evolutionary conserved matrix attachment regions (MARs), we identified three such MARs. These three MARs divide the region into two small chromatin domains of 5 kb, each containing two genes. Comparison of the sequence of the three MARs revealed a degenerated 21 bp sequence that is shared between these MARs and that is not found elsewhere in the region. A similar sequence element is also present in four other MARs of Arabidopsis.Therefore, this sequence may constitute a landmark for the position of MARs in the genome of this plant. In a genomic sequence database of Arabidopsis the 21 bp element is found approximately once every 10 kb. The compactness of the Arabidopsis genome could account for the high incidence of MARs and MRSs we observed.
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- C M van Drunen
- E. C. Slater Institute, University of Amsterdam, Plantage Muidergracht 12, 1018 TV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Jacquot JP, Lancelin JM, Meyer Y. Thioredoxins: structure and function in plant cells. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 1997; 136:543-570. [PMID: 33863109 DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.1997.00784.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Thioredoxins are ubiquitous small-molecular-weight proteins (typically 100-120 amino-acid residues) containing an extremely reactive disulphide bridge with a highly conserved sequence -Cys-Gly(Ala/Pro)-Pro-Cys-. In bacteria and animal cells, thioredoxins participate in multiple reactions which require reduction of disulphide bonds on selected target proteins/ enzymes. There is now ample biochemical evidence that thioredoxins exert very specific functions in plants, the best documented being the redox regulation of chloroplast enzymes. Another area in which thioredoxins are believed to play a prominent role is in reserve protein mobilization during the process of germination. It has been discovered that thioredoxins constitute a large multigene family in plants with different-subcellular localizations, a unique feature in living cells so far. Evolutionary studies based on these molecules will be discussed, as well as the available biochemical and genetic evidence related to their functions in plant cells. Eukaryotic photosynthetic plant cells are also unique in that they possess two different reducing systems, one extrachloroplastic dependent on NADPH as an electron donor, and the other one chloroplastic, dependent on photoreduced ferredoxin. This review will examine in detail the latest progresses in the area of thioredoxin structural biology in plants, this protein being an excellent model for this purpose. The structural features of the reducing enzymes ferredoxin thioredoxin reductase and NADPH thioredoxin reductase will also be described. The properties of the target enzymes known so far in plants will be detailed with special emphasis on the structural features which make them redox regulatory. Based on sequence analysis, evidence will be presented that redox regulation of enzymes of the biosynthetic pathways first appeared in cyanobacteria possibly as a way to cope with the oxidants produced by oxygenic photosynthesis. It became more elaborate in the chloroplasts of higher plants where a co-ordinated functioning of the chloroplastic and extra chloroplastic metabolisms is required. CONTENTS Summary 543 I. Introduction 544 II. Thioredoxins from photosynthetic organisms as a structural model 545 III. Physiological functions 552 IV. The thioredoxin reduction systems 556 V. Structural aspects of target enzymes 558 VI. Concluding remarks 563 Acknowledgements 564 References 564.
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- Jean-Pierre Jacquot
- Institut de Biotechnologie des Plantes, URA 1128 CNRS, Université de Paris-Sud, Bâilment 630, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
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- Laboratoire de RMN Biomoléculaire, ESA 5078 CNRS, Université de Lyon 1 et CPE-Lyon, Bâilment 308, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex France
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- Laboratoire de Physiologic et Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, UMR 5545 CNRS, Université de Perpignan, 66025 Perpignan Cedex France
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Spyrou G, Enmark E, Miranda-Vizuete A, Gustafsson J. Cloning and expression of a novel mammalian thioredoxin. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:2936-41. [PMID: 9006939 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.5.2936] [Citation(s) in RCA: 295] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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We have isolated a 1276-base pair cDNA from a rat heart cDNA library that encodes a novel thioredoxin (Trx2) of 166 amino acid residues with a calculated molecular mass of 18.2 kDa. Trx2 possesses the conserved thioredoxin-active site, Trp-Cys-Gly-Pro-Cys, but lacks structural cysteines present in all mammalian thioredoxins. Trx2 also differs from the previously described rat thioredoxin (Trx1) by the presence of a 60-amino acid extension at the N terminus. This extension has properties characteristic for a mitochondrial translocation signal, and the cleavage at a putative mitochondrial peptidase cleavage site would give a mature protein of 12.2 kDa. Western blot analysis from cytosolic, peroxisomal, and mitochondrial rat liver cell fractions confirmed mitochondrial localization of Trx2. Northern blot and reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction analyses revealed that Trx2 hybridized to a 1.3-kilobase message, and it was expressed in several tissues with the highest expression levels in heart, muscle, kidney, and adrenal gland. N-terminally truncated recombinant protein was expressed in bacteria and characterized biochemically. Trx2 possessed a dithiol-reducing enzymatic activity and, with mammalian thioredoxin reductase and NADPH, was able to reduce the interchain disulfide bridges of insulin. Furthermore, Trx2 was more resistant to oxidation than Trx1.
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- G Spyrou
- Department of Biosciences at Novum, Karolinska Institute, S-141 57 Huddinge, Sweden.
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Wollman EE, Kahan A, Fradelizi D. Detection of membrane associated thioredoxin on human cell lines. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1997; 230:602-6. [PMID: 9015370 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1996.6015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Thioredoxin (TRX) is a ubiquitous dithiol-oxidoreduction enzyme broadly expressed in cells from prokaryote to eukaryote organisms. Human thioredoxin (human TRX) gene, previously cloned in our laboratory, codes for a 12-kDa protein found in the culture supernatant of several hemopoietic human cell lines. This protein is secreted by a nonclassical pathway. The role of the secreted enzyme as a signalling soluble mediator was demonstrated, but nothing is known about a membrane associated form of thioredoxin which could be involved in cell/cell contacts and accessory signal function. Thus, we performed experiments to determine if human TRX is also expressed at the cell surface. We report here positive results based upon indirect immunofluorescence flow cytometric analysis of different human cell lines (HeLa, U 937, Jurkat, 3B6, Daudi and Raji) using a cross reactive sheep anti E. coli TRX polyclonal antibody demonstrating a significant expression of human TRX at the surface of human cells.
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Masutani H, Hirota K, Sasada T, Ueda-Taniguchi Y, Taniguchi Y, Sono H, Yodoi J. Transactivation of an inducible anti-oxidative stress protein, human thioredoxin by HTLV-I Tax. Immunol Lett 1996; 54:67-71. [PMID: 9052856 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-2478(96)02651-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Adult T-cell leukemia derived factor (ADF)/human thioredoxin (TRX), which has thiol reducing and radical scavenging activities, plays an essential role on cellular protection against oxidative stress and cell death. TRX itself is induced by various oxidative stress as well as the Human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) Tax protein. To investigate the mechanism of this induction, the promoter region of the TRX gene was analyzed. Chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) reporter constructs containing the TRX promoter sequences responded to the overexpression of the Tax protein, whereas various oxidative agents activated the TRX promoter through a newly identified oxidative responsive element. Moreover, TRX was translocated from the cytoplasm into the nucleus by ultraviolet irradiation, suggesting its possible role on sensing and transducing oxidative signals.
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- H Masutani
- Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Japan
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Hariharan J, Hebbar P, Ranie J, Sinha AM, Datta S. Alternative forms of the human thioredoxin mRNA: identification and characterization. Gene 1996; 173:265-70. [PMID: 8964512 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(96)00182-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Thioredoxin (TRX) is an ubiquitous and relatively conserved oxidoreductant enzyme which is involved in a multitude of redox reactions through the formation of reversible disulfide bonds. A recent report indicates the presence of novel isoforms of TRX proteins isolated from MP6 cell lines [Rosén et al., Int. Immunol. 7 (1995) 625-633]. In these isoforms, as evidenced from amino acid sequencing, several Lys residues of the wild-type sequence were replaced by Arg. Although the human genome contains several (isoformic) copies of the TRX gene, only one appears to be transcriptionally active [Kaghad et al., Gene, 140 (1994) 273-278]. As we characterized the isoforms of TRX mRNAs, we found that several MP6 TRX cDNA clones were devoid of the characteristic poly(A) tail. In order to increase the efficiency of isolating mRNAs without the poly(A) tail, we developed a novel procedure for exclusive capturing of a specific mRNA by magnetic beads coated with biotinylated antisense oligodeoxyribonucleotide. Using this method on MP6 cell total RNA, we isolated an additional truncated version of the TRX mRNA. This latter form does not produce any variant TRX enzyme, as an inframe stop codon truncates the product. This isoform was also present in mRNAs isolated from human placenta, leucocyte cells and Molt4 cells, the latter two being the progenitors of MP6 cells. From a thorough analysis of the sequence of the truncated TRX mRNA, we conclude that this variant originated from an event of altered splicing, as consensus splice sites were present in the normal TRX cDNA at precise positions.
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- J Hariharan
- Astra Research Centre India, Malleswaram, Bangalore, India
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Taniguchi Y, Taniguchi-Ueda Y, Mori K, Yodoi J. A novel promoter sequence is involved in the oxidative stress-induced expression of the adult T-cell leukemia-derived factor (ADF)/human thioredoxin (Trx) gene. Nucleic Acids Res 1996; 24:2746-52. [PMID: 8759006 PMCID: PMC145999 DOI: 10.1093/nar/24.14.2746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Adult T cell leukemia-derived factor (ADF) is a human thioredoxin (Trx) and is a disulfide reducing protein with various biological functions. We found that expression of the ADF/Trx gene was increased by oxidative agents such as hydrogen peroxide, diamide and menadione in Jurkat cells. Analysis using a CAT expression vector plasmid under the control of the ADF/Trx gene promoter revealed that CAT gene expression in Jurkat cells was increased after exposure to oxidative agents. A series of deletion analyses showed that a region from -976 to -890 of the 5' flanking sequence was required for enhancement of ADF/Trx promoter activity against the oxidative agents. Gel mobility shift assay revealed the specific DNA binding activities to the sequences from -953 to -930 in the nuclear extracts from the Jurkat cells. The sequences in this region showed no homology with any known consensus sequences for DNA binding factors. It is suggested that ADF/Trx gene expression is enhanced through a novel cis-acting regulatory element responsive for the oxidative stress and a new factor(s) is involved in this oxidative stress responsive element.
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- Y Taniguchi
- Department of Anesthesia, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan
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Weichsel A, Gasdaska JR, Powis G, Montfort WR. Crystal structures of reduced, oxidized, and mutated human thioredoxins: evidence for a regulatory homodimer. Structure 1996; 4:735-51. [PMID: 8805557 DOI: 10.1016/s0969-2126(96)00079-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 296] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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BACKGROUND Human thioredoxin reduces the disulfide bonds of numerous proteins in vitro, and can activate transcription factors such as NFkB in vivo. Thioredoxin can also act as a growth factor, and is overexpressed and secreted in certain tumor cells. RESULTS Crystal structures were determined for reduced and oxidized wild type human thioredoxin (at 1.7 and 2.1 A nominal resolution, respectively), and for reduced mutant proteins Cys73-->Ser and Cys32-->Ser/Cys35-->Ser (at 1.65 and 1.8 A, respectively). Surprisingly, thioredoxin is dimeric in all four structures; the dimer is linked through a disulfide bond between Cys73 of each monomer, except in Cys73-->Ser where a hydrogen bond occurs. The thioredoxin active site is blocked by dimer formation. Conformational changes in the active site and dimer interface accompany oxidation of the active-site cysteines, Cys32 and Cys35. CONCLUSIONS It has been suggested that a reduced pKa in the first cysteine (Cys32 in human thioredoxin) of the active-site sequence is important for modulation of the redox potential in thioredoxin. A hydrogen bond between the sulfhydryls of Cys32 and Cys35 may reduce the pKa of Cys32 and this pKa depression probably results in increased nucleophilicity of the Cys32 thiolate group. This nucleophilicity, in tum, is thought to be necessary for the role of thioredoxin in disulfide-bond reduction. The physiological role, if any, of thioredoxin dimer formation remains unknown. It is possible that dimerization may provide a mechanism for regulation of the protein, or a means of sensing oxidative stress.
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- A Weichsel
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721, USA
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Powis G, Gasdaska JR, Baker A. Redox signaling and the control of cell growth and death. ADVANCES IN PHARMACOLOGY (SAN DIEGO, CALIF.) 1996; 38:329-59. [PMID: 8895815 DOI: 10.1016/s1054-3589(08)60990-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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- G Powis
- Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona, Tucson 85724, USA
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Müller-Navia J, Nebel A, Schleiermacher E. Complete and precise characterization of marker chromosomes by application of microdissection in prenatal diagnosis. Hum Genet 1995; 96:661-7. [PMID: 8522323 DOI: 10.1007/bf00210295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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A straightforward and extremely efficient reverse chromosome painting technique is described which allows the rapid and unequivocal identification of any cytogenetically unclassifiable chromosome rearrangement. This procedure is used to determine the origin of unknown marker chromosomes found at prenatal diagnosis. After microdissection of the marker chromosome and amplification of the dissected fragment by a degenerate oligonucleotide-primed polymerase chain reaction (DOP-PCR), fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) to aberrant and normal metaphase chromosomes with the marker-derived probe pool is performed. With this strategy, marker chromosomes present in amniotic fluid samples were successfully identified in three cases. The origin of the supernumerary markers was ascertained as deriving from 3p(p12-cen), 18p(pter-cen) and 9p(p12-cen), respectively. Since a specific FISH signal on chromosomes can be obtained within 2 working days using a probe generated without any pretreatment from one chromosomal fragment only and without additional image processing devices, this technique is considered to be highly suitable for routine application in pre- and postnatal cytogenetic analysis.
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Stein M, Jacquot JP, Jeannette E, Decottignies P, Hodges M, Lancelin JM, Mittard V, Schmitter JM, Miginiac-Maslow M. Chlamydomonas reinhardtii thioredoxins: structure of the genes coding for the chloroplastic m and cytosolic h isoforms; expression in Escherichia coli of the recombinant proteins, purification and biochemical properties. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1995; 28:487-503. [PMID: 7632918 DOI: 10.1007/bf00020396] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Based on known amino acid sequences, probes have been generated by PCR and used for the subsequent isolation of cDNAs and genes coding for two thioredoxins (m and h) of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Thioredoxin m, a chloroplastic protein, is encoded as a preprotein of 140 amino acids (15,101 Da) containing a transit peptide of 34 amino acids with a very high content of Ala and Arg residues. The sequence for thioredoxin h codes for a 113 amino acid protein with a molecular mass of 11,817 Da and no signal sequence. The thioredoxin m gene contains a single intron and seems to be more archaic in structure than the thioredoxin h gene, which is split into 4 exons. The cDNA sequences encoding C. reinhardtii thioredoxins m and h have been integrated into the pET-3d expression vector, which permits efficient production of proteins in Escherichia coli cells. A high expression level of recombinant thioredoxins was obtained (up to 50 mg/l culture). This has allowed us to study the biochemical/biophysical properties of the two recombinant proteins. Interestingly, while the m-type thioredoxin was found to have characteristics very close to the ones of prokaryotic thioredoxins, the h-type thioredoxin was quite different with respect to its kinetic behaviour and, most strikingly, its heat denaturation properties.
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- M Stein
- Laboratoire de Physiologie Végétale Moléculaire, URA 1128 CNRS, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
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Heppell-Parton A, Cahn A, Bench A, Lowe N, Lehrach H, Zehetner G, Rabbitts P. Thioredoxin, a mediator of growth inhibition, maps to 9q31. Genomics 1995; 26:379-81. [PMID: 7601465 DOI: 10.1016/0888-7543(95)80223-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The human thioredoxin gene has been provisionally mapped to 3p11-p12. Recently thioredoxin cDNA has been isolated in a procedure that detects transcripts coding for growth-suppressing proteins, and thus the chromosomal location of the gene is of particular interest. Chromosome 3 is believed to harbor several tumor suppressor genes important in the development of lung and other common epithelial tumors. To establish more firmly the chromosomal location of the human thioredoxin gene, a somatic hybrid panel was used; it identified chromosome 9 as the location of the transcribed thioredoxin gene. Fluorescence in situ hybridization of a YAC encoding the transcribed thioredoxin gene refined the localization to 9q31.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Carcinoma, Small Cell/genetics
- Carcinoma, Small Cell/pathology
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosomes, Artificial, Yeast
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 3
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9
- Cricetinae
- DNA, Complementary/genetics
- Genes
- Humans
- Hybrid Cells
- Lung Neoplasms/genetics
- Lung Neoplasms/pathology
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Thioredoxins/genetics
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
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- A Heppell-Parton
- MRC Clinical Oncology and Radiotherapeutics Unit, MRC Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Matsui M, Taniguchi Y, Hirota K, Taketo M, Yodoi J. Structure of the mouse thioredoxin-encoding gene and its processed pseudogene. Gene X 1995; 152:165-71. [PMID: 7835695 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(94)00707-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Thioredoxins (TXN) are small proteins with various biological functions, such as redox regulation, found in many species including bacteria, plants and animals. We previously reported the isolation of the TXN-encoding cDNAs from human and mouse. In order to elucidate the functions of the mammalian TXN system, we planned to generate Txn knockout mice, and cloned the genomic DNA fragments using the Txn cDNA as a probe. The Txn gene extends over 12 kb and consists of five exons separated by four introns. Detailed Southern analyses revealed that the mouse genome contains only one active Txn gene and one processed pseudogene (Txn-ps1), in contrast to some species which have families of active TXN-encoding genes. These findings should help to understand Txn itself, and provide a basis for transgenic experiments by gene targeting.
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- M Matsui
- Department of Biological Responses, Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, Japan
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Cells maintain a reduced intracellular state in the face of a highly oxidizing extracellular environment. Redox signalling pathways provide a link between external stimuli, through the flavoenzyme-mediated NADPH-dependent reduction of intracellular peptide thiols, such as glutathione, thioredoxin, glutaredoxin, and redox factor-1, to the posttranslational redox modification of certain intracellular proteins. This can affect the proteins' correct folding, assembly into multimeric complexes, enzymatic activity, and their binding as transcription factors to specific DNA sequences. Such changes have been linked to altered cell growth and death.
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- G Powis
- Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona, Tucson 85724, USA
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Hori K, Katayama M, Sato N, Ishii K, Waga S, Yodoi J. Neuroprotection by glial cells through adult T cell leukemia-derived factor/human thioredoxin (ADF/TRX). Brain Res 1994; 652:304-10. [PMID: 7953744 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(94)90241-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Adult T cell leukemia-derived factor (ADF) is a human homologue of thioredoxin (TRX) with many biological functions and is induced by various stimuli and stress. In the central nervous system (CNS), expression of ADF/TRX occurs in glial cells during ischemia and reperfusion. We showed that ADF/TRX was actively released from U251 astrocytoma cells upon exposure to a low concentration of H2O2. The addition of conditioned medium from H2O2-stimulated U251 cells or recombinant ADF (rADF) to the culture medium promoted the survival of neurons from embryonic mouse cortex and striatum, but the addition of mutant ADF (mADF), which has no reducing activity, did not. In addition to rADF, incubation with two other thiol compounds, 2-mercaptoethanol (2-ME) and N-acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC), also increased the neuronal cell survival rate. In contrast, L-buthionine-(S,R)-sulfoximine (BSO), which inhibited the synthesis of glutathione (GSH), decreased the neuronal cell survival rate. Intracellular GSH was increased by incubation with rADF for 24 h, as it is with 2-ME and NAC. Redox active molecules such as thiol compounds may be survival factors for central neurons in vitro, and this capacity may be supplied by endogenous molecules, such as ADF/TRX and glutathione, under certain pathologic conditions in vivo.
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- K Hori
- Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, Japan
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Kitaoka Y, Sorachi K, Nakamura H, Masutani H, Mitsui A, Kobayashi F, Mori T, Yodoi J. Detection of adult T-cell leukemia-derived factor/human thioredoxin in human serum. Immunol Lett 1994; 41:155-61. [PMID: 8002031 DOI: 10.1016/0165-2478(94)90126-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Adult T-cell leukemia (ATL)-derived factor (ADF), originally defined as an inducer of interleukin-2 receptor/alpha-chain (IL-2R/p55) of human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) positive T cells, is a human homologue of redox-active coenzyme thioredoxin (Trx) of Escherichia coli. In this study, an enzymatic assay system based on the dithiol-dependent insulin-reducing activity of ADF/Trx was established (insulin-reducing assay) to determine the amount of ADF/Trx in human serum using NADPH and Trx reductase purified from human placenta. Insulin-reducing activity was detected in all of the serum samples from healthy volunteers (n = 30) screened by this assay, with a mean +/- SD of 10.9 +/- 2.4 U/l. This mean value corresponds with the concentration of 223 ng recombinant ADF/Trx (rADF/Trx)/ml. Human serum is known to contain several redox-active proteins with ADF/Trx motifs. To differentiate the contribution of these proteins and ADF/Trx to the insulin-reducing activity, the anti-rADF/Trx monoclonal antibody (mAb)-conjugated affinity column-depleted sera obtained from an identical source was used for analysis. The affinity column-depleted sera demonstrated a loss of over 99% of the original activity, while control column depleted sera lost less than 4%. Furthermore, the amount of affinity-purified ADF/Trx molecules eluted from the same column almost corresponded with the amount estimated by the insulin-reducing activity.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- Y Kitaoka
- Department of Biological Responses, Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto, Japan
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Kaghad M, Dessarps F, Jacquemin-Sablon H, Caput D, Fradelizi D, Wollman EE. Genomic cloning of human thioredoxin-encoding gene: mapping of the transcription start point and analysis of the promoter. Gene 1994; 140:273-8. [PMID: 8144037 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(94)90557-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Thioredoxin (TR) is a small ubiquitous dithiol-reductase enzyme first identified in bacteria and plants. In recent years, this protein has been recognized as playing an important role in the growth control of eukaryotic cells, especially in lymphocytes. It was first cloned from a human Epstein-Barr virus-transformed lymphoblastoid B-cell line by our group in 1988 [Wollman et al., J. Biol. Chem. 263 (1988) 15506-15512] and localized on chromosome 3 p11-p12 by in situ hybridization [Lafage-Pochitaloff-Huvalé et al., FEBS Lett. 255 (1989) 89-91]. The present work was performed to study the genomic organization of the human thioredoxin (hTR)-encoding gene (hTR). The screening of a human genomic library in lambda EMBL4 phage led to the identification of two genomic clones which encompassed the entire gene, including the promoter region. The coding region of hTR spans over 13 kb and is organized into five exons separated by four introns which were 60% sequenced. We determined the transcription start point (tsp) by primer extension. This tsp located, in lymphocytes, 22-bp downstream from a TATA box (TATAA) defines a 5' untranslated region of 74 bp. We analyzed 2149-bp upstream from the promoter for sequence motifs which could bind regulatory proteins. This promoter contains many possible regulatory elements compatible with both a basal constitutive expression and a regulated inducible transcription, especially by cytokines such as interleukin-6 and interferons. Finally, Southern hybridization of genomic DNAs from several donors detected only one active gene encoding hTR.
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- M Kaghad
- INSERM U283, Hôpital Cochin, Paris, France
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Cohen G, Argaman A, Schreiber R, Mislovati M, Aharonowitz Y. The thioredoxin system of Penicillium chrysogenum and its possible role in penicillin biosynthesis. J Bacteriol 1994; 176:973-84. [PMID: 8106340 PMCID: PMC205147 DOI: 10.1128/jb.176.4.973-984.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Penicillium chrysogenum is an important producer of penicillin antibiotics. A key step in their biosynthesis is the oxidative cyclization of delta-(L-alpha-aminoadipyl)-L-cysteinyl-D-valine (ACV) to isopenicillin N by the enzyme isopenicillin N synthase (IPNS). bis-ACV, the oxidized disulfide form of ACV is, however, not a substrate for IPNS. We report here the characterization of a broad-range disulfide reductase from P. chrysogenum that efficiently reduces bis-ACV to the thiol monomer. When coupled in vitro with IPNS, it converts bis-ACV to isopenicillin N and may therefore play a role in penicillin biosynthesis. The disulfide reductase consists of two protein components, a 72-kDa NADPH-dependent reductase, containing two identical subunits, and a 12-kDa general disulfide reductant. The latter reduces disulfide bonds in low-molecular-weight compounds and in proteins. The genes coding for the reductase system were cloned and sequenced. Both possess introns. A comparative analysis of their predicted amino acid sequences showed that the 12-kDa protein shares 26 to 60% sequence identity with thioredoxins and that the 36-kDa protein subunit shares 44 to 49% sequence identity with the two known bacterial thioredoxin reductases. In addition, the P. chrysogenum NADPH-dependent reductase is able to accept thioredoxin as a substrate. These results establish that the P. chrysogenum broad-range disulfide reductase is a member of the thioredoxin family of oxidoreductases. This is the first example of the cloning of a eucaryotic thioredoxin reductase gene.
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- G Cohen
- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel
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Brugidou C, Marty I, Chartier Y, Meyer Y. The Nicotiana tabacum genome encodes two cytoplasmic thioredoxin genes which are differently expressed. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1993; 238:285-93. [PMID: 8479434 DOI: 10.1007/bf00279557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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A Nicotiana tabacum thioredoxin h gene (EMBL Accession No. Z11803) encoding a new thioredoxin (called h2) was isolated using thioredoxin h1 cDNA (X58527), and represents the first thioredoxin h gene isolated from a higher plant. It encodes a polypeptide of 118 amino acids with the conserved thioredoxin active site Trp-Cys-Gly-Pro-Cys. This gene comprises two introns which have lengths of 1071 and 147 bp respectively, and three exons which encode peptides of 29, 41 and 48 amino acids, respectively. This thioredoxin h shows 66% identity with the amino acid sequence of thioredoxin h1 (X58527) and only around 35% with the choroplastic thioredoxins. The two thioredoxins, h1 and h2, do not have any signal peptides and are most probably cytoplasmic. Using the 3' regions of the mRNAs, two probes specific for thioredoxins h1 and h2 have been prepared. Southern blot analysis shows that thioredoxin sequences are present in only two genomic EcoRI fragments: a 3.3 kb fragment encodes h1 and a 4.5 kb fragment encodes h2. Analysis of the ancestors of the allotetraploid N. tabacum shows that thioredoxin h2 is present in N. sylvestris and N. tomentosiformis but that thioredoxin h1 is absent from both putative ancestors. Thus, the thioredoxin h1 gene has probably been recently introduced in to N. tabacum as a gene of agronomic importance, or linked to such genes. Northern blot analysis shows that both genes are expressed in N. tabacum, mostly in organs or tissues that contain growing cells.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- C Brugidou
- Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire et Physiologie Végétale, Unité associée au CNRS 565, Université de Perpignan, France
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Martínez-Galisteo E, Padilla CA, García-Alfonso C, López-Barea J, Bárcena JA. Purification and properties of bovine thioredoxin system. Biochimie 1993; 75:803-9. [PMID: 8274532 DOI: 10.1016/0300-9084(93)90131-b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
Abstract
Using a variety of chromatographic techniques, a crude extract from bovine liver was fractionated to obtain pure preparations of thioredoxin reductase, thioredoxin, glutaredoxin and glutathione reductase with good yields. The turbidimetric assay of thioredoxin with insulin as the disulfide substrate was optimized; by incorporation of the lag time (tau) into the calculations, linearity was maintained for a wider range of thioredoxin concentrations, and a distinction could be made between reduced and non-reduced forms. Subunit composition and molecular mass, absorption spectrum and kinetic parameters of thioredoxin reductase were similar to those of other mammalian thioredoxin reductases. By chromatofocusing, two peaks of activity were detected at pH 5.5 and 5.8. Structural changes undergone by the thioredoxin molecule upon oxido-reduction were detected by isoelectric focusing, with a shift of 0.1 pH unit of its pI, and by analytical anion exchange chromatography, with a conspicuous shift of its retention time. These two methods also revealed the presence of a form of thioredoxin not undergoing the above mentioned redox-mediated structural shifts that accounted for > 75% of the total activity.
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- E Martínez-Galisteo
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de Córdoba, Spain
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