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Sahu S, Emenike B, Beusch CM, Bagchi P, Gordon DE, Raj M. Copper(I)-nitrene platform for chemoproteomic profiling of methionine. Nat Commun 2024; 15:4243. [PMID: 38762540 PMCID: PMC11102537 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-48403-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2023] [Accepted: 04/30/2024] [Indexed: 05/20/2024] Open
Abstract
Methionine plays a critical role in various biological and cell regulatory processes, making its chemoproteomic profiling indispensable for exploring its functions and potential in protein therapeutics. Building on the principle of rapid oxidation of methionine, we report Copper(I)-Nitrene Platform for robust, and selective labeling of methionine to generate stable sulfonyl sulfimide conjugates under physiological conditions. We demonstrate the versatility of this platform to label methionine in bioactive peptides, intact proteins (6.5-79.5 kDa), and proteins in complex cell lysate mixtures with varying payloads. We discover ligandable proteins and sites harboring hyperreactive methionine within the human proteome. Furthermore, this has been utilized to profile oxidation-sensitive methionine residues, which might increase our understanding of the protective role of methionine in diseases associated with elevated levels of reactive oxygen species. The Copper(I)-Nitrene Platform allows labeling methionine residues in live cancer cells, observing minimal cytotoxic effects and achieving dose-dependent labeling. Confocal imaging further reveals the spatial distribution of modified proteins within the cell membrane, cytoplasm, and nucleus, underscoring the platform's potential in profiling the cellular interactome.
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- Samrat Sahu
- Department of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
- Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Biochemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
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Hoare M, Tan R, Welle KA, Swovick K, Hryhorenko JR, Ghaemmaghami S. Methionine Alkylation as an Approach to Quantify Methionine Oxidation Using Mass Spectrometry. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2024; 35:433-440. [PMID: 38324783 PMCID: PMC10921467 DOI: 10.1021/jasms.3c00337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2023] [Revised: 01/08/2024] [Accepted: 01/12/2024] [Indexed: 02/09/2024]
Abstract
Post-translational oxidation of methionine residues can destabilize proteins or modify their functions. Although levels of methionine oxidation can provide important information regarding the structural integrity and regulation of proteins, their quantitation is often challenging as analytical procedures in and of themselves can artifactually oxidize methionines. Here, we develop a mass-spectrometry-based method called Methionine Oxidation by Blocking with Alkylation (MObBa) that quantifies methionine oxidation by selectively alkylating and blocking unoxidized methionines. Thus, alkylated methionines can be used as a stable proxy for unoxidized methionines. Using proof of concept experiments, we demonstrate that MObBa can be used to measure methionine oxidation levels within individual synthetic peptides and on proteome-wide scales. MObBa may provide a straightforward experimental strategy for mass spectrometric quantitation of methionine oxidation.
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- Margaret Hoare
- Department
of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, United States
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- Department
of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, United States
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- University
of Rochester Mass Spectrometry Resource Laboratory, Rochester, New York 14627, United States
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- University
of Rochester Mass Spectrometry Resource Laboratory, Rochester, New York 14627, United States
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- University
of Rochester Mass Spectrometry Resource Laboratory, Rochester, New York 14627, United States
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- Department
of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, United States
- University
of Rochester Mass Spectrometry Resource Laboratory, Rochester, New York 14627, United States
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Sastre S, Manta B, Semelak JA, Estrin D, Trujillo M, Radi R, Zeida A. Catalytic Mechanism of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Methionine Sulfoxide Reductase A. Biochemistry 2024; 63:533-544. [PMID: 38286790 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.3c00504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2024]
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The oxidation of Met to methionine sulfoxide (MetSO) by oxidants such as hydrogen peroxide, hypochlorite, or peroxynitrite has profound effects on protein function. This modification can be reversed by methionine sulfoxide reductases (msr). In the context of pathogen infection, the reduction of oxidized proteins gains significance due to microbial oxidative damage generated by the immune system. For example, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mt) utilizes msrs (MtmsrA and MtmsrB) as part of the repair response to the host-induced oxidative stress. The absence of these enzymes makes Mycobacteria prone to increased susceptibility to cell death, pointing them out as potential therapeutic targets. This study provides a detailed characterization of the catalytic mechanism of MtmsrA using a comprehensive approach, including experimental techniques and theoretical methodologies. Confirming a ping-pong type enzymatic mechanism, we elucidate the catalytic parameters for sulfoxide and thioredoxin substrates (kcat/KM = 2656 ± 525 M-1 s-1 and 1.7 ± 0.8 × 106 M-1 s-1, respectively). Notably, the entropic nature of the activation process thermodynamics, representing ∼85% of the activation free energy at room temperature, is underscored. Furthermore, the current study questions the plausibility of a sulfurane intermediate, which may be a transition-state-like structure, suggesting the involvement of a conserved histidine residue as an acid-base catalyst in the MetSO reduction mechanism. This mechanistic insight not only advances our understanding of Mt antioxidant enzymes but also holds implications for future drug discovery and biotechnological applications.
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- Santiago Sastre
- Departamento de Bioquímica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, Gral Flores 2125, CP 11800 Montevideo, Uruguay
- Departamento de Biofísica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, Gral Flores 2125, CP 11800 Montevideo, Uruguay
- Centro de Investigaciones Biomédicas (CEINBIO), Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, Gral Flores 2125, CP 11800 Montevideo, Uruguay
- Programa de Doctorado en Química, Facultad de Química, Universidad de la República, Gral Flores 2124, CP 11800 Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Mataojo 2020, CP 11400 Montevideo, Uruguay
- Cátedra de Fisiopatología, Facultad de Odontología, Universidad de la República, Gral Las Heras 1925, CP 11600 Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Departamento de Química Inorgánica, Analítica y Química Física, Instituto de Química Física de los Materiales, Medio Ambiente y Energía (INQUIMAE), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires and CONICET, Ciudad Universitaria, Intendente Güiraldes 2160, CP C1428EGA Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Departamento de Química Inorgánica, Analítica y Química Física, Instituto de Química Física de los Materiales, Medio Ambiente y Energía (INQUIMAE), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires and CONICET, Ciudad Universitaria, Intendente Güiraldes 2160, CP C1428EGA Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Departamento de Bioquímica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, Gral Flores 2125, CP 11800 Montevideo, Uruguay
- Centro de Investigaciones Biomédicas (CEINBIO), Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, Gral Flores 2125, CP 11800 Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Departamento de Bioquímica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, Gral Flores 2125, CP 11800 Montevideo, Uruguay
- Centro de Investigaciones Biomédicas (CEINBIO), Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, Gral Flores 2125, CP 11800 Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Departamento de Bioquímica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, Gral Flores 2125, CP 11800 Montevideo, Uruguay
- Centro de Investigaciones Biomédicas (CEINBIO), Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, Gral Flores 2125, CP 11800 Montevideo, Uruguay
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Sørensen M, Pershagen G, Thacher JD, Lanki T, Wicki B, Röösli M, Vienneau D, Cantuaria ML, Schmidt JH, Aasvang GM, Al-Kindi S, Osborne MT, Wenzel P, Sastre J, Fleming I, Schulz R, Hahad O, Kuntic M, Zielonka J, Sies H, Grune T, Frenis K, Münzel T, Daiber A. Health position paper and redox perspectives - Disease burden by transportation noise. Redox Biol 2024; 69:102995. [PMID: 38142584 PMCID: PMC10788624 DOI: 10.1016/j.redox.2023.102995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2023] [Revised: 12/07/2023] [Accepted: 12/10/2023] [Indexed: 12/26/2023] Open
Abstract
Transportation noise is a ubiquitous urban exposure. In 2018, the World Health Organization concluded that chronic exposure to road traffic noise is a risk factor for ischemic heart disease. In contrast, they concluded that the quality of evidence for a link to other diseases was very low to moderate. Since then, several studies on the impact of noise on various diseases have been published. Also, studies investigating the mechanistic pathways underlying noise-induced health effects are emerging. We review the current evidence regarding effects of noise on health and the related disease-mechanisms. Several high-quality cohort studies consistently found road traffic noise to be associated with a higher risk of ischemic heart disease, heart failure, diabetes, and all-cause mortality. Furthermore, recent studies have indicated that road traffic and railway noise may increase the risk of diseases not commonly investigated in an environmental noise context, including breast cancer, dementia, and tinnitus. The harmful effects of noise are related to activation of a physiological stress response and nighttime sleep disturbance. Oxidative stress and inflammation downstream of stress hormone signaling and dysregulated circadian rhythms are identified as major disease-relevant pathomechanistic drivers. We discuss the role of reactive oxygen species and present results from antioxidant interventions. Lastly, we provide an overview of oxidative stress markers and adverse redox processes reported for noise-exposed animals and humans. This position paper summarizes all available epidemiological, clinical, and preclinical evidence of transportation noise as an important environmental risk factor for public health and discusses its implications on the population level.
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- Mette Sørensen
- Work, Environment and Cancer, Danish Cancer Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Natural Science and Environment, Roskilde University, Denmark.
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Health Security, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Kuopio, Finland; School of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland; Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland; University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland; University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland; University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Work, Environment and Cancer, Danish Cancer Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark; Research Unit for ORL - Head & Neck Surgery and Audiology, Odense University Hospital & University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Research Unit for ORL - Head & Neck Surgery and Audiology, Odense University Hospital & University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Department of Air Quality and Noise, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Medicine, University Hospitals, Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute, Case Western Reserve University, 11100 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
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- Cardiovascular Imaging Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Cardiology, Cardiology I, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany; German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Rhine-Main, Mainz, Germany; Center for Thrombosis and Hemostasis, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Valencia, Spain
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- Institute for Vascular Signalling, Centre for Molecular Medicine, Goethe University, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany; German Center of Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site RheinMain, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Institute of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Justus-Liebig University, Gießen, 35392, Gießen, Germany
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- Department of Cardiology, Cardiology I, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany; German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Rhine-Main, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Cardiology, Cardiology I, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany; German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Rhine-Main, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Biophysics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology I, Faculty of Medicine, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany; Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Toxicology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany; DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), Partner Site Berlin, Berlin, Germany; German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), München-Neuherberg, Germany
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- Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Stem Cell Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Cardiology, Cardiology I, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany; German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Rhine-Main, Mainz, Germany; Center for Thrombosis and Hemostasis, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Cardiology, Cardiology I, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany; German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Rhine-Main, Mainz, Germany; Center for Thrombosis and Hemostasis, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
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Wang AC, Qi XM, Li QF, Feng YJ, Zhang YL, Wei HZ, Li JS, Qiao YB, Li QS. Methionine redox regulation of actin-interacting proteins primarily governs antioxidative signaling and response to the salvianolic acid B treatment in EA.hy926 cells. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 2024; 483:116835. [PMID: 38272317 DOI: 10.1016/j.taap.2024.116835] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2023] [Revised: 01/19/2024] [Accepted: 01/22/2024] [Indexed: 01/27/2024]
Abstract
Actin-interacting proteins are important molecules for filament assembly and cytoskeletal signaling within vascular endothelium. Disruption in their interactions causes endothelial pathogenesis through redox imbalance. Actin filament redox regulation remains largely unexplored, in the context of pharmacological treatment. This work focused on the peptidyl methionine (M) redox regulation of actin-interacting proteins, aiming at elucidating its role on governing antioxidative signaling and response. Endothelial EA.hy926 cells were subjected to treatment with salvianolic acid B (Sal B) and tert-butyl-hydroperoxide (tBHP) stimulation. Mass spectrometry was employed to characterize redox status of proteins, including actin, myosin-9, kelch-like erythroid-derived cap-n-collar homology-associated protein 1 (Keap1), plastin-3, prelamin-A/C and vimentin. The protein redox landscape revealed distinct stoichiometric ratios or reaction site transitions mediated by M sulfoxide reductase and reactive oxygen species. In comparison with effects of tBHP stimulation, Sal B treatment prevented oxidation at actin M325, myosin-9 M1489/1565, Keap1 M120, plastin-3 M592, prelamin-A/C M187/371/540 and vimentin M344. For Keap1, reaction site was transitioned within its scaffolding region to the actin ring. These protein M oxidation regulations contributed to the Sal B cytoprotective effects on actin filament. Additionally, regarding the Keap1 homo-dimerization region, Sal B preventive roles against M120 oxidation acted as a primary signal driver to activate nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2). Transcriptional splicing of non-POU domain-containing octamer-binding protein was validated during the Sal B-mediated overexpression of NAD(P)H dehydrogenase [quinone] 1. This molecular redox regulation of actin-interacting proteins provided valuable insights into the phenolic structures of Sal B analogs, showing potential antioxidative effects on vascular endothelium.
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- Ai-Cheng Wang
- Shanxi Key Laboratory of Innovative Drug for the Treatment of Serious Diseases Basing on the Chronic Inflammation, College of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Food Engineering, Shanxi University of Chinese Medicine, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030619, China
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- Shanxi Key Laboratory of Innovative Drug for the Treatment of Serious Diseases Basing on the Chronic Inflammation, College of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Food Engineering, Shanxi University of Chinese Medicine, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030619, China.
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- Shanxi Key Laboratory of Innovative Drug for the Treatment of Serious Diseases Basing on the Chronic Inflammation, College of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Food Engineering, Shanxi University of Chinese Medicine, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030619, China
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- Shanxi Key Laboratory of Innovative Drug for the Treatment of Serious Diseases Basing on the Chronic Inflammation, College of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Food Engineering, Shanxi University of Chinese Medicine, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030619, China
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- Shanxi Key Laboratory of Innovative Drug for the Treatment of Serious Diseases Basing on the Chronic Inflammation, College of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Food Engineering, Shanxi University of Chinese Medicine, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030619, China.
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- Shanxi Key Laboratory of Innovative Drug for the Treatment of Serious Diseases Basing on the Chronic Inflammation, College of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Food Engineering, Shanxi University of Chinese Medicine, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030619, China; School of Public Health Science & Pharmaceutical Science, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan 030001, China.
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- Shanxi Key Laboratory of Innovative Drug for the Treatment of Serious Diseases Basing on the Chronic Inflammation, College of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Food Engineering, Shanxi University of Chinese Medicine, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030619, China
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- Shanxi Key Laboratory of Innovative Drug for the Treatment of Serious Diseases Basing on the Chronic Inflammation, College of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Food Engineering, Shanxi University of Chinese Medicine, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030619, China.
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- Shanxi Key Laboratory of Innovative Drug for the Treatment of Serious Diseases Basing on the Chronic Inflammation, College of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Food Engineering, Shanxi University of Chinese Medicine, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030619, China; School of Public Health Science & Pharmaceutical Science, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan 030001, China.
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Fan H, Bai Q, Yang Y, Shi X, Du G, Yan J, Shi J, Wang D. The key roles of reactive oxygen species in microglial inflammatory activation: Regulation by endogenous antioxidant system and exogenous sulfur-containing compounds. Eur J Pharmacol 2023; 956:175966. [PMID: 37549725 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2023.175966] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2023] [Revised: 08/02/2023] [Accepted: 08/04/2023] [Indexed: 08/09/2023]
Abstract
Aberrant innate immunity in the brain has been implicated in the pathogenesis of several central nervous system (CNS) disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease, stroke, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and depression. Except for extraparenchymal CNS-associated macrophages, which predominantly afford protection against peripheral invading pathogens, it has been reported that microglia, a population of macrophage-like cells governing CNS immune defense in nearly all neurological diseases, are the main CNS resident immune cells. Although microglia have been recognized as the most important source of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the CNS, ROS also may underlie microglial functions, especially M1 polarization, by modulating redox-sensitive signaling pathways. Recently, endogenous antioxidant systems, including glutathione, hydrogen sulfide, superoxide dismutase, and methionine sulfoxide reductase A, were found to be involved in regulating microglia-mediated neuroinflammation. A series of natural sulfur-containing compounds, including S-adenosyl methionine, S-methyl-L-cysteine, sulforaphane, DMS, and S-alk(enyl)-l-cysteine sulfoxide, modulating endogenous antioxidant systems have been discovered. We have summarized the current knowledge on the involvement of endogenous antioxidant systems in regulating microglial inflammatory activation and the effects of sulfur-containing compounds on endogenous antioxidant systems. Finally, we discuss the possibilities associated with compounds targeting the endogenous antioxidant system to treat neuroinflammation-associated diseases.
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- Hua Fan
- Office of Research & Innovation, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Clinical Medicine of Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, 471003, China.
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- Office of Research & Innovation, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Clinical Medicine of Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, 471003, China
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- Office of Research & Innovation, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Clinical Medicine of Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, 471003, China
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- Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Clinical Medicine of Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, 471003, China
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- Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Clinical Medicine of Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, 471003, China
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- Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Clinical Medicine of Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, 471003, China
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- Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Clinical Medicine of Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, 471003, China
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- School of Basic Medical Sciences, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, 471003, China.
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Kim SO, Shapiro JP, Cottrill KA, Collins GL, Shanthikumar S, Rao P, Ranganathan S, Stick SM, Orr ML, Fitzpatrick AM, Go YM, Jones DP, Tirouvanziam RM, Chandler JD. Substrate-dependent metabolomic signatures of myeloperoxidase activity in airway epithelial cells: Implications for early cystic fibrosis lung disease. Free Radic Biol Med 2023; 206:180-190. [PMID: 37356776 PMCID: PMC10513041 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2023.06.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2023] [Revised: 06/14/2023] [Accepted: 06/23/2023] [Indexed: 06/27/2023]
Abstract
Myeloperoxidase (MPO) is released by neutrophils in inflamed tissues. MPO oxidizes chloride, bromide, and thiocyanate to produce hypochlorous acid (HOCl), hypobromous acid (HOBr), and hypothiocyanous acid (HOSCN), respectively. These oxidants are toxic to pathogens, but may also react with host cells to elicit biological activity and potential toxicity. In cystic fibrosis (CF) and related diseases, increased neutrophil inflammation leads to increased airway MPO and airway epithelial cell (AEC) exposure to its oxidants. In this study, we investigated how equal dose-rate exposures of MPO-derived oxidants differentially impact the metabolome of human AECs (BEAS-2B cells). We utilized enzymatic oxidant production with rate-limiting glucose oxidase (GOX) coupled to MPO, and chloride, bromide (Br-), or thiocyanate (SCN-) as substrates. AECs exposed to GOX/MPO/SCN- (favoring HOSCN) were viable after 24 h, while exposure to GOX/MPO (favoring HOCl) or GOX/MPO/Br- (favoring HOBr) developed cytotoxicity after 6 h. Cell glutathione and peroxiredoxin-3 oxidation were insufficient to explain these differences. However, untargeted metabolomics revealed GOX/MPO and GOX/MPO/Br- diverged significantly from GOX/MPO/SCN- for dozens of metabolites. We noted methionine sulfoxide and dehydromethionine were significantly increased in GOX/MPO- or GOX/MPO/Br--treated cells, and analyzed them as potential biomarkers of lung damage in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid from 5-year-olds with CF (n = 27). Both metabolites were associated with increasing bronchiectasis, neutrophils, and MPO activity. This suggests MPO production of HOCl and/or HOBr may contribute to inflammatory lung damage in early CF. In summary, our in vitro model enabled unbiased identification of exposure-specific metabolite products which may serve as biomarkers of lung damage in vivo. Continued research with this exposure model may yield additional oxidant-specific biomarkers and reveal explicit mechanisms of oxidant byproduct formation and cellular redox signaling.
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- Susan O Kim
- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pulmonary, Asthma, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sleep, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pulmonary, Asthma, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sleep, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pulmonary, Asthma, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sleep, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pulmonary, Asthma, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sleep, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, VIC, Australia; Respiratory Diseases, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, VIC, Australia; Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- Medical Imaging, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, VIC, Australia; Respiratory Diseases, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, VIC, Australia; Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- Telethon Kids Institute, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pulmonary, Asthma, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sleep, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA; Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pulmonary, Asthma, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sleep, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA; Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pulmonary, Asthma, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sleep, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA; Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA; Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, USA.
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Bodnar Y, Lillig CH. Cysteinyl and methionyl redox switches: Structural prerequisites and consequences. Redox Biol 2023; 65:102832. [PMID: 37536083 PMCID: PMC10412846 DOI: 10.1016/j.redox.2023.102832] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2023] [Accepted: 07/27/2023] [Indexed: 08/05/2023] Open
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Redox modifications of specific cysteinyl and methionyl residues regulate key enzymes and signal-transducing proteins in various pathways. Here, we analyzed the effect of redox modifications on protein structure screening the RCSB protein data bank for oxidative modifications of proteins, i.e. protein disulfides, mixed disulfides with glutathione, cysteinyl sulfenic acids, cysteinyl S-nitrosylation, and methionyl sulfoxide residues. When available, these structures were compared to the structures of the same proteins in the reduced state with respect to both pre-requirements for the oxidative modifications as well as the structural consequences of the modifications. In general, the conformational changes induced by the redox modification are small, i.e. within the range of normal fluctuations. Some redox modifications, disulfides in particular, induces alterations in the electrostatic properties of the proteins. Solvent accessibility does not seem to be a strict pre-requirement for the redox modification of a particular residue. We identified an enrichment of certain other amino acid residues in the vicinity of the susceptible residues, for disulfide and sulfenic acid modifications, for instance, histidyl and tyrosyl residues. These motifs, as well as the specific features of the susceptible sulfur-containing amino acids, may become helpful for the prediction of redox modifications.
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- Yana Bodnar
- Institut for Physics, University of Greifswald, Germany; Institute for Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University Medicine Greifswald, Germany
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- Institute for Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University Medicine Greifswald, Germany.
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Rajan S, Terman JR, Reisler E. MICAL-mediated oxidation of actin and its effects on cytoskeletal and cellular dynamics. Front Cell Dev Biol 2023; 11:1124202. [PMID: 36875759 PMCID: PMC9982024 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2023.1124202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2022] [Accepted: 02/02/2023] [Indexed: 02/19/2023] Open
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Actin and its dynamic structural remodelings are involved in multiple cellular functions, including maintaining cell shape and integrity, cytokinesis, motility, navigation, and muscle contraction. Many actin-binding proteins regulate the cytoskeleton to facilitate these functions. Recently, actin's post-translational modifications (PTMs) and their importance to actin functions have gained increasing recognition. The MICAL family of proteins has emerged as important actin regulatory oxidation-reduction (Redox) enzymes, influencing actin's properties both in vitro and in vivo. MICALs specifically bind to actin filaments and selectively oxidize actin's methionine residues 44 and 47, which perturbs filaments' structure and leads to their disassembly. This review provides an overview of the MICALs and the impact of MICAL-mediated oxidation on actin's properties, including its assembly and disassembly, effects on other actin-binding proteins, and on cells and tissue systems.
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- Sudeepa Rajan
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Departments of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
- Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Mwangi PN, Potgieter RL, Simwaka J, Mpabalwani EM, Mwenda JM, Mogotsi MT, Magagula N, Esona MD, Steele AD, Seheri ML, Nyaga MM. Genomic Analysis of G2P[4] Group A Rotaviruses in Zambia Reveals Positive Selection in Amino Acid Site 7 of Viral Protein 3. Viruses 2023; 15:v15020501. [PMID: 36851715 PMCID: PMC9965253 DOI: 10.3390/v15020501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2023] [Revised: 02/07/2023] [Accepted: 02/09/2023] [Indexed: 02/15/2023] Open
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The G2P[4] genotype is among the rotavirus strains that circulate commonly in humans. Several countries have reported its immediate upsurge after the introduction of rotavirus vaccination, raising concern about sub-optimal vaccine effectiveness against this genotype in the long term. This study aimed to gain insight into the evolution of post-vaccine Zambian G2P[4] group A rotavirus (RVA) strains and their overall genetic make-up by analysis of sequence alignments at the amino acid (AA) level. Twenty-nine Zambian G2P[4] rotavirus strains were subjected to whole-genome sequencing using the Illumina MiSeq® platform. All the strains exhibited the typical DS-1-like genotype constellation, and the nucleotide sequences of the 11 genome segments showed high nucleotide similarities (>97%). Phylogenetic analyses together with representative global G2P[4] RVA showed that Zambian strains clustered into human lineages IV (for VP2, VP4, VP7, NSP1, and NSP5), V (for VP1, VP3, VP6, NSP2, and NSP3), and XXIII (for NSP4). The AA differences between the lineages where the study strains clustered and lineages of global reference strains were identified and analyzed. Selection pressure analysis revealed that AA site seven in the Viral Protein 3 (VP3) genome segment was under positive selection. This site occurs in the region of intrinsic disorder in the VP3 protein, and Zambian G2P[4] strains could potentially be utilizing this intrinsically disordered region to survive immune pressure. The Zambian G2P[4] strains from 2012 to 2016 comprised the G2P[4] strains that have been circulating globally since the early 2000s, highlighting the epidemiological fitness of these contemporary G2P[4] strains. Continuous whole-genome surveillance of G2P[4] strains remains imperative to understand their evolution during the post-vaccination period.
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- Peter N. Mwangi
- Next Generation Sequencing Unit and Division of Virology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa
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- Next Generation Sequencing Unit and Division of Virology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa
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- Institute of Basic and Biomedical Sciences, Department of Biomedical Sciences, The Levy Mwanawasa Medical University, Lusaka 10101, Zambia
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- Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, School of Medicine, University of Zambia, Ridgeway, Lusaka RW50000, Zambia
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- World Health Organization, Regional Office for Africa, Brazzaville P.O. Box 06, Congo
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- Next Generation Sequencing Unit and Division of Virology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa
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- Diarrheal Pathogens Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, Pretoria 0204, South Africa
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- Diarrheal Pathogens Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, Pretoria 0204, South Africa
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- Diarrheal Pathogens Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, Pretoria 0204, South Africa
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- Diarrheal Pathogens Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, Pretoria 0204, South Africa
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- Next Generation Sequencing Unit and Division of Virology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa
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Vincent MS, Ezraty B. Methionine oxidation in bacteria: A reversible post-translational modification. Mol Microbiol 2023; 119:143-150. [PMID: 36350090 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.15000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2022] [Revised: 11/04/2022] [Accepted: 11/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Methionine is a sulfur-containing residue found in most proteins which are particularly susceptible to oxidation. Although methionine oxidation causes protein damage, it can in some cases activate protein function. Enzymatic systems reducing oxidized methionine have evolved in most bacterial species and methionine oxidation proves to be a reversible post-translational modification regulating protein activity. In this review, we inspect recent examples of methionine oxidation provoking protein loss and gain of function. We further speculate on the role of methionine oxidation as a multilayer endogenous antioxidant system and consider its potential consequences for bacterial virulence.
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- Maxence S Vincent
- Laboratoire de Chimie Bactérienne, Institut de Microbiologie de la Méditerranée, Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, Marseille, France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie Bactérienne, Institut de Microbiologie de la Méditerranée, Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, Marseille, France
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Zhi Y, Li X, Lian F, Wang C, White JC, Wang Z, Xing B. Nanoscale Iron trioxide catalyzes the synthesis of auxins analogs in artificial humic acids to enhance rice growth. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 848:157536. [PMID: 35878859 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157536] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2022] [Revised: 07/13/2022] [Accepted: 07/17/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Humic acids (HAs), kinds of valuable active carbon, are critical for improving soil fertility. However, the majority of soils are poor in HAs, arousing the development of artificial HAs. In this study, two iron-based catalysts (nanoscale iron trioxide (nFe2O3) and FeCl3) were used to catalyze the hydrothermal humification of waste corn straw. With the help of ultra-performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry, we proposed the specific humification process with the action of catalysis for the first time, which is of great significance for the design, synthesis and application of artificial HAs in the future. Moreover, the growth-promoting effect and mechanisms of the artificial HAs were determined by rice planting in a greenhouse. Results showed that compared to no catalyst treatment, the FeCl3 and nFe2O3 catalysts increased the decomposition rate of macromolecular biomass by 39 and 14 %, respectively, increasing the yield of artificial HAs. During the humification process, nFe2O3 catalysts benefit the formation of many aromatic structure monomers including furfural and hydroxycaproic acids. These monomers were condensed into growth hormone analogs such as vanillin and methionine sulfoxide and were further built in the artificial HAs. Therefore, the artificial HAs from nFe2O3 catalytic treatment promoted the rice growth the best, showing that the resultant germination rate, root activity, and photosynthetic rate of rice increased by 50, 167, and 72 %, respectively; moreover, the uptake and accumulation of water and nutrient by roots as well as the contents of soluble protein and sugar of rice are also significantly increased. This could be ascribed to the upregulated expression of functional genes including OsRHL1, OsZPT5-07, OsSHR2 and OsDCL. Considering both the economic and environmental benefits, we suggested that the artificial HAs, especially that produced with the action of nFe2O3 catalysis, are promising in alleviating environmental stress from waste biomass and sustainably improving agricultural production.
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- Yancai Zhi
- Institute of Environmental Processes and Pollution Control, and School of Environment and Civil Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214122, China
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- Institute of Environmental Processes and Pollution Control, and School of Environment and Civil Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214122, China; Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory for Biomass Energy and Carbon Reduction Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214122, China
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- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China
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- Institute of Environmental Processes and Pollution Control, and School of Environment and Civil Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214122, China; Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory for Biomass Energy and Carbon Reduction Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214122, China
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- The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, CT 06504, United States
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- Institute of Environmental Processes and Pollution Control, and School of Environment and Civil Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214122, China; Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory for Biomass Energy and Carbon Reduction Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214122, China.
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- Stockbridge School of Agriculture, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, United States
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Maurais A, Weerapana E. A peptide-crosslinking approach identifies HSPA8 and PFKL as selective interactors of an actin-derived peptide containing reduced and oxidized methionine. RSC Chem Biol 2022; 3:1282-1289. [PMID: 36320891 PMCID: PMC9533414 DOI: 10.1039/d2cb00183g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2022] [Accepted: 09/13/2022] [Indexed: 10/07/2023] Open
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The oxidation of methionine to methionine sulfoxide occurs under conditions of cellular oxidative stress, and modulates the function of a diverse array of proteins. Enzymatic systems that install and reverse the methionine sulfoxide modifications have been characterized, however, little is known about potential readers of this oxidative modification. Here, we apply a peptide-crosslinking approach to identify proteins that are able to differentially interact with reduced and oxidized methionine-containing peptides. Specifically, we generated a photo-crosslinking peptide derived from actin, which contains two sites of methionine oxidation, M44 and M47. Our proteomic studies identified heat shock proteins, including HSPA8, as selective for the reduced methionine-containing peptide, whereas the phosphofructokinase isoform, PFKL, preferentially interacts with the oxidized form. We then demonstrate that the favored interaction of PFKL with oxidized methionine is also observed in the full-length actin protein, suggesting a role of methionine oxidation in regulating the actin-PFKL interaction in cells. Our studies demonstrate the potential to identify proteins that can differentiate between reduced and oxidized methionine and thereby mediate downstream protein functions under conditions of oxidative stress. Furthermore, given that numerous sites of methionine oxidation have now been identified, these studies set the stage to identify putative readers of methionine oxidation on other protein targets.
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- Aaron Maurais
- Department of Chemistry, Boston College Chestnut Hill MA 02467 USA
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Tarrago L, Kaya A, Kim HY, Manta B, Lee BC, Gladyshev VN. The selenoprotein methionine sulfoxide reductase B1 (MSRB1). Free Radic Biol Med 2022; 191:228-240. [PMID: 36084791 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2022.08.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2022] [Revised: 08/11/2022] [Accepted: 08/31/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Methionine (Met) can be oxidized to methionine sulfoxide (MetO), which exist as R- and S-diastereomers. Present in all three domains of life, methionine sulfoxide reductases (MSR) are the enzymes that reduce MetO back to Met. Most characterized among them are MSRA and MSRB, which are strictly stereospecific for the S- and R-diastereomers of MetO, respectively. While the majority of MSRs use a catalytic Cys to reduce their substrates, some employ selenocysteine. This is the case of mammalian MSRB1, which was initially discovered as selenoprotein SELR or SELX and later was found to exhibit an MSRB activity. Genomic analyses demonstrated its occurrence in most animal lineages, and biochemical and structural analyses uncovered its catalytic mechanism. The use of transgenic mice and mammalian cell culture revealed its physiological importance in the protection against oxidative stress, maintenance of neuronal cells, cognition, cancer cell proliferation, and the immune response. Coincident with the discovery of Met oxidizing MICAL enzymes, recent findings of MSRB1 regulating the innate immunity response through reversible stereospecific Met-R-oxidation of cytoskeletal actin opened up new avenues for biological importance of MSRB1 and its role in disease. In this review, we discuss the current state of research on MSRB1, compare it with other animal Msrs, and offer a perspective on further understanding of biological functions of this selenoprotein.
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- Lionel Tarrago
- UMR 1163, Biodiversité et Biotechnologie Fongiques, INRAE, Aix-Marseille Université, 13009, Marseille, France.
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- Department of Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 23284, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Yeungnam University College of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea
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- Laboratorio de Genomica Microbiana, Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Mataojo 2020, 11440, Montevideo, Uruguay; Catedra de Fisiopatología, Facultad de Odontología, Universidad de la República, Las Heras 1925, 11600, Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Korea University, Seoul, 02841, Republic of Korea.
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- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 02115, USA.
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Zheng Y, Wang Z, Xue D, Tao M, Jiang F, Jia B, Li Y, Huang G, Hu Z. Characterization of a new selenoprotein methionine sulfoxide reductase from Haematococcus pluvialis and its antioxidant activity in response to high light intensity, hydrogen peroxide, glyphosate, and cadmium exposure. ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY 2022; 242:113903. [PMID: 35870349 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2022.113903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2022] [Revised: 07/01/2022] [Accepted: 07/17/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Selenium incorporates into selenocysteine (Sec) which is a key component of selenoproteins implicated in antioxidant defense and redox homeostasis. Methionine sulfoxide reductases (Msr) play crucial roles in cellular defense against environmental stress. Whereas mammals have the MsrB selenoprotein form, unicellular organisms have MsrA. The Sec residue at the conserved catalytic sites of selenoprotein MsrA confers a metabolic advantage over the non-selenoprotein type MsrA. In the present study, the novel selenoprotein HpMsrA from Haematococcus pluvialis was cloned by the rapid amplification of cDNA ends and transformed into the model green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Alignment of homologs revealed the presence of the conserved catalytic domain GUFW and showed that the HpMsrA protein comprises Sec (U) at the N-terminus but no recycled Cys at the C-terminus. We studied the response of HpMsrA expression to selenite, high light intensity, hydrogen peroxide, cadmium nitrate, and glyphosate exposure via real-time quantitative PCR and enzyme activity analysis. The results demonstrated that HpMsrA protects cellular proteins against oxidative and environmental stressors. Compared with wild type C. reinhardtii, the transformant exhibited a superior antioxidant ability. The discoveries made herein shed light on the antioxidant physiology and environmental stress resistance mechanisms of the selenoproteins in microalgae. This information may aid in conducting environmental risk assessments of aquatic ecosystems involving microalgae known to respond rapidly and quantitatively to abiotic stress factors promoting excessive reactive oxygen species generation.
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- Yihong Zheng
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine Bioresource and Eco-environmental Science, Guangdong Engineering Research Center for Marine Algal Biotechnology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory for Plant Epigenetics, College of Life Science and Oceanography, Shenzhen University, 518060 Shenzhen, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine Bioresource and Eco-environmental Science, Guangdong Engineering Research Center for Marine Algal Biotechnology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory for Plant Epigenetics, College of Life Science and Oceanography, Shenzhen University, 518060 Shenzhen, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine Bioresource and Eco-environmental Science, Guangdong Engineering Research Center for Marine Algal Biotechnology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory for Plant Epigenetics, College of Life Science and Oceanography, Shenzhen University, 518060 Shenzhen, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine Bioresource and Eco-environmental Science, Guangdong Engineering Research Center for Marine Algal Biotechnology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory for Plant Epigenetics, College of Life Science and Oceanography, Shenzhen University, 518060 Shenzhen, China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Beibu Gulf Marine Research Center, Guangxi Academy of Sciences, Nanning 530007, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine Bioresource and Eco-environmental Science, Guangdong Engineering Research Center for Marine Algal Biotechnology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory for Plant Epigenetics, College of Life Science and Oceanography, Shenzhen University, 518060 Shenzhen, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine Bioresource and Eco-environmental Science, Guangdong Engineering Research Center for Marine Algal Biotechnology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory for Plant Epigenetics, College of Life Science and Oceanography, Shenzhen University, 518060 Shenzhen, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine Bioresource and Eco-environmental Science, Guangdong Engineering Research Center for Marine Algal Biotechnology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory for Plant Epigenetics, College of Life Science and Oceanography, Shenzhen University, 518060 Shenzhen, China.
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine Bioresource and Eco-environmental Science, Guangdong Engineering Research Center for Marine Algal Biotechnology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory for Plant Epigenetics, College of Life Science and Oceanography, Shenzhen University, 518060 Shenzhen, China.
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The Potential of a Protein Model Synthesized Absent of Methionine. MOLECULES (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 27:molecules27123679. [PMID: 35744804 PMCID: PMC9230714 DOI: 10.3390/molecules27123679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2022] [Revised: 05/20/2022] [Accepted: 06/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Methionine is an amino acid long thought to be essential, but only in the case of protein synthesis initiation. In more recent years, methionine has been found to play an important role in antioxidant defense, stability, and modulation of cell and protein activity. Though these findings have expanded the previously held sentiment of methionine having a singular purpose within cells and proteins, the essential nature of methionine can still be challenged. Many of the features that give methionine its newfound functions are shared by the other sulfur-containing amino acid: cysteine. While the antioxidant, stabilizing, and cell/protein modulatory functions of cysteine have already been well established, recent findings have shown a similar hydrophobicity to methionine which suggests cysteine may be able to replace methionine in all functions outside of protein synthesis initiation with little effect on cell and protein function. Furthermore, a number of novel mechanisms for alternative initiation of protein synthesis have been identified that suggest a potential to bypass the traditional methionine-dependent initiation during times of stress. In this review, these findings are discussed with a number of examples that demonstrate a potential model for synthesizing a protein in the absence of methionine.
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Quinn CM, Xu S, Hou G, Chen Q, Sail D, Byrd RA, Rozovsky S. 77Se- 13C based dipolar correlation experiments to map selenium sites in microcrystalline proteins. JOURNAL OF BIOMOLECULAR NMR 2022; 76:29-37. [PMID: 35320434 PMCID: PMC9195563 DOI: 10.1007/s10858-022-00390-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2021] [Accepted: 01/14/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Sulfur-containing sites in proteins are of great importance for both protein structure and function, including enzymatic catalysis, signaling pathways, and recognition of ligands and protein partners. Selenium-77 is an NMR active spin-1/2 nucleus that shares many physiochemical properties with sulfur and can be readily introduced into proteins at sulfur sites without significant perturbations to the protein structure. The sulfur-containing amino acid methionine is commonly found at protein-protein or protein-ligand binding sites. Its selenium-containing counterpart, selenomethionine, has a broad chemical shift dispersion useful for NMR-based studies of complex systems. Methods such as (1H)-77Se-13C double cross polarization or {77Se}-13C REDOR could be valuable to map the local environment around selenium sites in proteins but have not been demonstrated to date. In this work, we explore these dipolar transfer mechanisms for structural characterization of the GB1 V39SeM variant of the model protein GB1 and demonstrate that 77Se-13C based correlations can be used to map the local environment around selenium sites in proteins. We have found that the general detection limit is ~ 5 Å, but longer range distances up to ~ 7 Å can be observed as well. This study establishes a framework for the future characterization of selenium sites at protein-protein or protein-ligand binding interfaces.
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- Caitlin M. Quinn
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, National Laboratory for Clean Energy, 2011-Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongshan Road 457, Dalian 116023, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA
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- Chemistry and Synthesis Center, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA
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Das S, Zhang Z, Kalvakota S, Soto R, Phillips ML, Terman JR, Reisler E. Parallel actin monomers in the 8S complex of actin-INF2. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2022; 41:3295-3304. [PMID: 35343388 PMCID: PMC10368088 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2022.2050947] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Polymerization and depolymerization of actin play an essential role in eukaryotic cells. Actin exists in cells in both monomeric (G-actin) and filamentous (polymer, F-actin) forms. Actin binding proteins (ABPs) facilitate the transition between these two states, and their interactions with these two states of actin are critical for actin-based cellular processes. Rapid depolymerization of actin is assisted in the brain and/or other cells by its oxidation by the enzyme Mical (yielding Mox-actin), and/or by the binding of Inverted Formin 2 (INF2) - which can also accelerate filaments formation. At their stoichiometric molar ratio INF2 and actin yield the 8S complex (consisting of 4 actin monomers: 2 INF2 dimer molecules). Using biochemical and biophysical methods, we investigate the structural arrangement of actin in the 8S particles and the interaction of INF2 with actin and Mox-actin. To that end, we show 2 D class averages of 8S particles obtained by negative staining electron microscopy. We also show that: (i) 8S particles can seed rapid actin assembly; (ii) Mox-actin and INF2 form 8S particles at proteins ratios similar to those of unoxidized actin; (iii) chemical crosslinkings suggest that actin monomers are in a parallel orientation in the 8S particles of both actin and Mox-actin; and (iv) INF2 accelerates the disassembly of Mox-F-actin. Our results provide better understanding of actin's arrangement in the 8S particles formed during actin depolymerization and in the early polymerization stages of both actin and Mox-actin.Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma.
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- Sanchaita Das
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Departments of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, The University of Texas of Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.,Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Protein folding stabilities are a major determinant of oxidation rates for buried methionine residues. J Biol Chem 2022; 298:101872. [PMID: 35346688 PMCID: PMC9062257 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2022.101872] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2021] [Revised: 03/19/2022] [Accepted: 03/21/2022] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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The oxidation of protein-bound methionines to form methionine sulfoxides has a broad range of biological ramifications, making it important to delineate factors that influence methionine oxidation rates within a given protein. This is especially important for biopharmaceuticals, where oxidation can lead to deactivation and degradation. Previously, neighboring residue effects and solvent accessibility have been shown to impact the susceptibility of methionine residues to oxidation. In this study, we provide proteome-wide evidence that oxidation rates of buried methionine residues are also strongly influenced by the thermodynamic folding stability of proteins. We surveyed the Escherichia coli proteome using several proteomic methodologies and globally measured oxidation rates of methionine residues in the presence and absence of tertiary structure, as well as the folding stabilities of methionine-containing domains. These data indicated that buried methionines have a wide range of protection factors against oxidation that correlate strongly with folding stabilities. Consistent with this, we show that in comparison to E. coli, the proteome of the thermophile Thermus thermophilus is significantly more stable and thus more resistant to methionine oxidation. To demonstrate the utility of this correlation, we used native methionine oxidation rates to survey the folding stabilities of E. coli and T. thermophilus proteomes at various temperatures and propose a model that relates the temperature dependence of the folding stabilities of these two species to their optimal growth temperatures. Overall, these results indicate that oxidation rates of buried methionines from the native state of proteins can be used as a metric of folding stability.
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Kuldyushev N, Schönherr R, Coburger I, Ahmed M, Hussein RA, Wiesel E, Godbole A, Pfirrmann T, Hoshi T, Heinemann SH. A GFP-based ratiometric sensor for cellular methionine oxidation. Talanta 2022; 243:123332. [PMID: 35276500 DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2022.123332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2021] [Revised: 02/17/2022] [Accepted: 02/21/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Methionine oxidation is a reversible post-translational protein modification, affecting protein function, and implicated in aging and degenerative diseases. The detection of accumulating methionine oxidation in living cells or organisms, however, has not been achieved. Here we introduce a genetically encoded probe for methionine oxidation (GEPMO), based on the super-folder green fluorescent protein (sfGFP), as a specific, versatile, and integrating sensor for methionine oxidation. Placed at amino-acid position 147 in an otherwise methionine-less sfGFP, the oxidation of this specific methionine to methionine sulfoxide results in a ratiometric fluorescence change when excited with ∼400 and ∼470 nm light. The strength and homogeneity of the sensor expression is suited for live-cell imaging as well as fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) experiments using standard laser wavelengths (405/488 nm). Expressed in mammalian cells and also in S. cerevisiae, the sensor protein faithfully reports on the status of methionine oxidation in an integrating manner. Variants targeted to membranes and the mitochondria provide subcellular resolution of methionine oxidation, e.g. reporting on site-specific oxidation by illumination of endogenous protoporphyrin IX.
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- Nikita Kuldyushev
- Center for Molecular Biomedicine, Department of Biophysics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Jena University Hospital, Hans-Knöll-Str. 2, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Center for Molecular Biomedicine, Department of Biophysics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Jena University Hospital, Hans-Knöll-Str. 2, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Center for Molecular Biomedicine, Department of Biophysics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Jena University Hospital, Hans-Knöll-Str. 2, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Center for Molecular Biomedicine, Department of Biophysics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Jena University Hospital, Hans-Knöll-Str. 2, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Center for Molecular Biomedicine, Department of Biophysics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Jena University Hospital, Hans-Knöll-Str. 2, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Center for Molecular Biomedicine, Department of Biophysics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Jena University Hospital, Hans-Knöll-Str. 2, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Center for Molecular Biomedicine, Institute for Molecular Cell Biology, Jena University Hospital, Hans-Knöll-Str. 2, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Institute for Physiological Chemistry, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Hollystr. 1, 06144, Halle/Saale, Germany; Department of Medicine, Health and Medical University, Olympischer Weg 1, 14471 Potsdam, Germany
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- Department of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104-6085, USA
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- Center for Molecular Biomedicine, Department of Biophysics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Jena University Hospital, Hans-Knöll-Str. 2, 07745, Jena, Germany.
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Gu H, Li Y, Cui X, Cao H, Hou Z, Ti Y, Liu D, Gao J, Wang Y, Wen P. MICAL1 inhibits colorectal cancer cell migration and proliferation by regulating the EGR1/β-catenin signaling pathway. Biochem Pharmacol 2022; 195:114870. [PMID: 34902339 DOI: 10.1016/j.bcp.2021.114870] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2021] [Revised: 11/18/2021] [Accepted: 12/03/2021] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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MICAL1 has been reported to be involved in the malignant processes of several types of cancer cells, however, the roles of MICAL1 in colorectal cancer (CRC) have not been well-characterized. This study aims to investigate the cellular functions and molecular mechanisms of MICAL1 in CRC cells. Here, we found that both mRNA and protein levels of MICAL1 were down-regulated in colorectal cancer tissues compared with matched adjacent non-tumor tissues, and the expression level of MICAL1 was correlated with the metastatic status of colorectal cancer. Importantly, overexpression of MICAL1 significantly inhibited colorectal cancer cell migration and growth, and increased the level of E-cadherin and Occludin, and suppressed the expression level of Vimentin and N-cadherin; while silencing of MICAL1 promoted CRC cell migration and enhanced EMT. In addition, MICAL1 overexpression significantly inhibited the proliferation and growth of CRC in vitro and in vivo. Moreover, RNA sequencing and bioinformatics analysis identified that MICAL1 was closely correlated with "cell migration", "cell cycle" and "β-catenin signaling" genesets. Mechanistically, overexpression of MICAL1 downregulated the mRNA level of EGR1 and β-catenin, decreased the protein level and nuclear translocation of β-catenin, and inhibited the transcriptions of β-catenin downstream targets, c-myc and cyclin D1. The ectopic expression of EGR1 or β-catenin can significantly block the MICAL1-mediated inhibitory effects. Collectively, MICAL1 is down-regulated in CRC, and plays an inhibitory role in the migration and growth of CRC cells by suppressing the ERG1/β-catenin signaling pathway.
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- Huanyu Gu
- Department of Pathophysiology, Jinzhou Medical University, Jinzhou 121000, Liaoning, China
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- Department of Pathophysiology, Jinzhou Medical University, Jinzhou 121000, Liaoning, China
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- Life Science Institute, Jinzhou Medical University, Jinzhou 121000, Liaoning, China
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- Department of Pathophysiology, Jinzhou Medical University, Jinzhou 121000, Liaoning, China
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- Department of Pathophysiology, Jinzhou Medical University, Jinzhou 121000, Liaoning, China
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- Department of Pathophysiology, Jinzhou Medical University, Jinzhou 121000, Liaoning, China
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- Biological Anthropology Institute, Jinzhou Medical University, Jinzhou 121000, Liaoning, China
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- Department of Ultrasonography, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinzhou Medical University, Jinzhou 121001, China
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- Life Science Institute, Jinzhou Medical University, Jinzhou 121000, Liaoning, China.
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- Department of Pathophysiology, Jinzhou Medical University, Jinzhou 121000, Liaoning, China; Biological Anthropology Institute, Jinzhou Medical University, Jinzhou 121000, Liaoning, China.
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Demasi M, Augusto O, Bechara EJH, Bicev RN, Cerqueira FM, da Cunha FM, Denicola A, Gomes F, Miyamoto S, Netto LES, Randall LM, Stevani CV, Thomson L. Oxidative Modification of Proteins: From Damage to Catalysis, Signaling, and Beyond. Antioxid Redox Signal 2021; 35:1016-1080. [PMID: 33726509 DOI: 10.1089/ars.2020.8176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Significance: The systematic investigation of oxidative modification of proteins by reactive oxygen species started in 1980. Later, it was shown that reactive nitrogen species could also modify proteins. Some protein oxidative modifications promote loss of protein function, cleavage or aggregation, and some result in proteo-toxicity and cellular homeostasis disruption. Recent Advances: Previously, protein oxidation was associated exclusively to damage. However, not all oxidative modifications are necessarily associated with damage, as with Met and Cys protein residue oxidation. In these cases, redox state changes can alter protein structure, catalytic function, and signaling processes in response to metabolic and/or environmental alterations. This review aims to integrate the present knowledge on redox modifications of proteins with their fate and role in redox signaling and human pathological conditions. Critical Issues: It is hypothesized that protein oxidation participates in the development and progression of many pathological conditions. However, no quantitative data have been correlated with specific oxidized proteins or the progression or severity of pathological conditions. Hence, the comprehension of the mechanisms underlying these modifications, their importance in human pathologies, and the fate of the modified proteins is of clinical relevance. Future Directions: We discuss new tools to cope with protein oxidation and suggest new approaches for integrating knowledge about protein oxidation and redox processes with human pathophysiological conditions. Antioxid. Redox Signal. 35, 1016-1080.
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- Marilene Demasi
- Laboratório de Bioquímica e Biofísica, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Bioquímica and Instituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Química Fundamental, Instituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Bioquímica, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- CENTD, Centre of Excellence in New Target Discovery, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Bioquímica, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Laboratorios Fisicoquímica Biológica-Enzimología, Facultad de Ciencias, Instituto de Química Biológica, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Departamento de Genética e Biologia Evolutiva, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Bioquímica and Instituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Genética e Biologia Evolutiva, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Laboratorios Fisicoquímica Biológica-Enzimología, Facultad de Ciencias, Instituto de Química Biológica, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Departamento de Química Fundamental, Instituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Laboratorios Fisicoquímica Biológica-Enzimología, Facultad de Ciencias, Instituto de Química Biológica, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
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Michaeloudes C, Abubakar-Waziri H, Lakhdar R, Raby K, Dixey P, Adcock IM, Mumby S, Bhavsar PK, Chung KF. Molecular mechanisms of oxidative stress in asthma. Mol Aspects Med 2021; 85:101026. [PMID: 34625291 DOI: 10.1016/j.mam.2021.101026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 29.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2021] [Accepted: 09/15/2021] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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The lungs are exposed to reactive oxygen species oxygen (ROS) produced as a result of inhalation of oxygen, as well as smoke and other air pollutants. Cell metabolism and the NADPH oxidases (Nox) generate low levels of intracellular ROS that act as signal transduction mediators by inducing oxidative modifications of histones, enzymes and transcription factors. Redox signalling is also regulated by localised production and sensing of ROS in mitochondria, the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and inside the nucleus. Intracellular ROS are maintained at low levels through the action of a battery of enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidants. Asthma is a heterogeneous airway inflammatory disease with different immune endotypes; these include atopic or non-atopic Th2 type immune response associated with eosinophilia, or a non-Th2 response associated with neutrophilia. Airway remodelling and hyperresponsiveness accompany the inflammatory response in asthma. Over-production of ROS resulting from infiltrating immune cells, particularly eosinophils and neutrophils, and a concomitant impairment of antioxidant responses lead to development of oxidative stress in asthma. Oxidative stress is augmented in severe asthma and during exacerbations, as well as by air pollution and obesity, and causes oxidative damage of tissues promoting airway inflammation and hyperresponsiveness. Furthermore, deregulated Nox activity, mitochondrial dysfunction, ER stress and/or oxidative DNA damage, resulting from exposure to irritants, inflammatory mediators or obesity, may lead to redox-dependent changes in cell signalling. ROS play a central role in airway epithelium-mediated sensing, development of innate and adaptive immune responses, and airway remodelling and hyperresponsiveness. Nonetheless, antioxidant compounds have proven clinically ineffective as therapeutic agents for asthma, partly due to issues with stability and in vivo metabolism of these compounds. The compartmentalised nature of ROS production and sensing, and the role of ROS in homeostatic responses and in the action of corticosteroids and β2-adrenergic receptor agonists, adds another layer of complexity to antioxidant therapy development. Nox inhibitors and mitochondrial-targeted antioxidants are in clinical development for a number of diseases but they have not yet been investigated in asthma. A better understanding of the complex role of ROS in the pathogenesis of asthma will highlight new opportunities for more targeted and effective redox therapies.
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- Charalambos Michaeloudes
- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom; NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, United Kingdom.
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom; NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, United Kingdom
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom; NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, United Kingdom
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom; NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, United Kingdom
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom; NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, United Kingdom
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom; NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, United Kingdom
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom; NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, United Kingdom; Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust, London, UK
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Grintsevich EE, Ahmed G, Ginosyan AA, Wu H, Rich SK, Reisler E, Terman JR. Profilin and Mical combine to impair F-actin assembly and promote disassembly and remodeling. Nat Commun 2021; 12:5542. [PMID: 34545088 PMCID: PMC8452626 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-25781-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2020] [Accepted: 08/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Cellular events require the spatiotemporal interplay between actin assembly and actin disassembly. Yet, how different factors promote the integration of these two opposing processes is unclear. In particular, cellular monomeric (G)-actin is complexed with profilin, which inhibits spontaneous actin nucleation but fuels actin filament (F-actin) assembly by elongation-promoting factors (formins, Ena/VASP). In contrast, site-specific F-actin oxidation by Mical promotes F-actin disassembly and release of polymerization-impaired Mical-oxidized (Mox)-G-actin. Here we find that these two opposing processes connect with one another to orchestrate actin/cellular remodeling. Specifically, we find that profilin binds Mox-G-actin, yet these complexes do not fuel elongation factors’-mediated F-actin assembly, but instead inhibit polymerization and promote further Mox-F-actin disassembly. Using Drosophila as a model system, we show that similar profilin–Mical connections occur in vivo – where they underlie F-actin/cellular remodeling that accompanies Semaphorin–Plexin cellular/axon repulsion. Thus, profilin and Mical combine to impair F-actin assembly and promote F-actin disassembly, while concomitantly facilitating cellular remodeling and plasticity. Actin-based structures in cells and tissues are built and maintained through a poorly understood balance between assembly and disassembly. Here, our findings provide insights into how factors known to promote these opposing effects dynamically integrate to shape cells and tissue systems.
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- Elena E Grintsevich
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA. .,Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), Long Beach, CA, 90840, USA.
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- Departments of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 75390, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA
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- Departments of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 75390, USA
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- Departments of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 75390, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA. .,Molecular Biology Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA.
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- Departments of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 75390, USA.
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Aledo JC. The Role of Methionine Residues in the Regulation of Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation. Biomolecules 2021; 11:biom11081248. [PMID: 34439914 PMCID: PMC8394241 DOI: 10.3390/biom11081248] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2021] [Revised: 08/12/2021] [Accepted: 08/18/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Membraneless organelles are non-stoichiometric supramolecular structures in the micron scale. These structures can be quickly assembled/disassembled in a regulated fashion in response to specific stimuli. Membraneless organelles contribute to the spatiotemporal compartmentalization of the cell, and they are involved in diverse cellular processes often, but not exclusively, related to RNA metabolism. Liquid-liquid phase separation, a reversible event involving demixing into two distinct liquid phases, provides a physical framework to gain insights concerning the molecular forces underlying the process and how they can be tuned according to the cellular needs. Proteins able to undergo phase separation usually present a modular architecture, which favors a multivalency-driven demixing. We discuss the role of low complexity regions in establishing networks of intra- and intermolecular interactions that collectively control the phase regime. Post-translational modifications of the residues present in these domains provide a convenient strategy to reshape the residue-residue interaction networks that determine the dynamics of phase separation. Focus will be placed on those proteins with low complexity domains exhibiting a biased composition towards the amino acid methionine and the prominent role that reversible methionine sulfoxidation plays in the assembly/disassembly of biomolecular condensates.
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- Juan Carlos Aledo
- Departamento de Biología Molecular y Bioquímica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Málaga, 29071 Málaga, Spain
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Dietary nutrients and their control of the redox bioenergetic networks as therapeutics in redox dysfunctions sustained pathologies. Pharmacol Res 2021; 170:105709. [PMID: 34089868 DOI: 10.1016/j.phrs.2021.105709] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2021] [Revised: 05/12/2021] [Accepted: 05/31/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Electrons exchange amongst the chemical species in an organism is a pivotal concomitant activity carried out by individual cells for basic cellular processes and continuously contribute towards the maintenance of bioenergetic networks plus physiological attributes like cell growth, phenotypic differences and nutritional adaptations. Humans exchange matter and energy via complex connections of metabolic pathways (redox reactions) amongst cells being a thermodynamically open system. Usually, these reactions are the real lifeline and driving forces of health and disease in the living entity. Many shreds of evidence support the secondary role of reactive species in the cellular process of control apoptosis and proliferation. Disrupted redox mechanisms are seen in malaises, like degenerative and metabolic disorders, cancerous cells. This review targets the importance of redox reactions in the body's normal functioning and the effects of its alterations in cells to obtain a better understanding. Understanding the redox dynamics in a pathological state can provide an opportunity for cure or diagnosis at the earlier stage and serve as an essential biomarker to predict in advance to give personalized therapy. Understanding redox metabolism can also highlight the use of naturally available antioxidant in the form of diet.
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Rich SK, Baskar R, Terman JR. Propagation of F-actin disassembly via Myosin15-Mical interactions. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2021; 7:7/20/eabg0147. [PMID: 33980493 PMCID: PMC8115926 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abg0147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2020] [Accepted: 03/23/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The F-actin cytoskeleton drives cellular form and function. However, how F-actin-based changes occur with spatiotemporal precision and specific directional orientation is poorly understood. Here, we identify that the unconventional class XV myosin [Myosin 15 (Myo15)] physically and functionally interacts with the F-actin disassembly enzyme Mical to spatiotemporally position cellular breakdown and reconstruction. Specifically, while unconventional myosins have been associated with transporting cargo along F-actin to spatially target cytoskeletal assembly, we now find they also target disassembly. Myo15 specifically positions this F-actin disassembly by associating with Mical and using its motor and MyTH4-FERM cargo-transporting functions to broaden Mical's distribution. Myo15's broadening of Mical's distribution also expands and directionally orients Mical-mediated F-actin disassembly and subsequent cellular remodeling, including in response to Semaphorin/Plexin cell surface activation signals. Thus, we identify a mechanism that spatiotemporally propagates F-actin disassembly while also proposing that other F-actin-trafficked-cargo is derailed by this disassembly to directionally orient rebuilding.
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- Shannon K Rich
- Departments of Neuroscience and Pharmacology and Neuroscience Graduate Program, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Departments of Neuroscience and Pharmacology and Neuroscience Graduate Program, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Departments of Neuroscience and Pharmacology and Neuroscience Graduate Program, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA.
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Signal-regulated oxidation of proteins via MICAL. Biochem Soc Trans 2021; 48:613-620. [PMID: 32219383 DOI: 10.1042/bst20190866] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2019] [Revised: 03/09/2020] [Accepted: 03/11/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Processing of and responding to various signals is an essential cellular function that influences survival, homeostasis, development, and cell death. Extra- or intracellular signals are perceived via specific receptors and transduced in a particular signalling pathway that results in a precise response. Reversible post-translational redox modifications of cysteinyl and methionyl residues have been characterised in countless signal transduction pathways. Due to the low reactivity of most sulfur-containing amino acid side chains with hydrogen peroxide, for instance, and also to ensure specificity, redox signalling requires catalysis, just like phosphorylation signalling requires kinases and phosphatases. While reducing enzymes of both cysteinyl- and methionyl-derivates have been characterised in great detail before, the discovery and characterisation of MICAL proteins evinced the first examples of specific oxidases in signal transduction. This article provides an overview of the functions of MICAL proteins in the redox regulation of cellular functions.
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Yoon J, Wu H, Hung RJ, Terman JR. Enhanced Production of the Mical Redox Domain for Enzymology and F-actin Disassembly Assays. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms22041991. [PMID: 33671465 PMCID: PMC7922515 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22041991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2021] [Revised: 02/09/2021] [Accepted: 02/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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To change their behaviors, cells require actin proteins to assemble together into long polymers/filaments—and so a critical goal is to understand the factors that control this actin filament (F-actin) assembly and stability. We have identified a family of unusual actin regulators, the MICALs, which are flavoprotein monooxygenase/hydroxylase enzymes that associate with flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) and use the co-enzyme nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) in Redox reactions. F-actin is a specific substrate for these MICAL Redox enzymes, which oxidize specific amino acids within actin to destabilize actin filaments. Furthermore, this MICAL-catalyzed reaction is reversed by another family of Redox enzymes (SelR/MsrB enzymes)—thereby revealing a reversible Redox signaling process and biochemical mechanism regulating actin dynamics. Interestingly, in addition to the MICALs’ Redox enzymatic portion through which MICALs covalently modify and affect actin, MICALs have multiple other domains. Less is known about the roles of these other MICAL domains. Here we provide approaches for obtaining high levels of recombinant protein for the Redox only portion of Mical and demonstrate its catalytic and F-actin disassembly activity. These results provide a ground state for future work aimed at defining the role of the other domains of Mical — including characterizing their effects on Mical’s Redox enzymatic and F-actin disassembly activity.
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- Jimok Yoon
- Departments of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA; (J.Y.); (H.W.); (R.-J.H.)
- Neuroscience Graduate Program, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Departments of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA; (J.Y.); (H.W.); (R.-J.H.)
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- Departments of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA; (J.Y.); (H.W.); (R.-J.H.)
- Neuroscience Graduate Program, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Departments of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA; (J.Y.); (H.W.); (R.-J.H.)
- Neuroscience Graduate Program, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +1-214-648-1464; Fax: +1-214-648-1801
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Konstantinidis K, Bezzerides VJ, Lai L, Isbell HM, Wei AC, Wu Y, Viswanathan MC, Blum ID, Granger JM, Heims-Waldron D, Zhang D, Luczak ED, Murphy KR, Lu F, Gratz DH, Manta B, Wang Q, Wang Q, Kolodkin AL, Gladyshev VN, Hund TJ, Pu WT, Wu MN, Cammarato A, Bianchet MA, Shea MA, Levine RL, Anderson ME. MICAL1 constrains cardiac stress responses and protects against disease by oxidizing CaMKII. J Clin Invest 2021; 130:4663-4678. [PMID: 32749237 PMCID: PMC7456244 DOI: 10.1172/jci133181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2019] [Accepted: 05/29/2020] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Oxidant stress can contribute to health and disease. Here we show that invertebrates and vertebrates share a common stereospecific redox pathway that protects against pathological responses to stress, at the cost of reduced physiological performance, by constraining Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) activity. MICAL1, a methionine monooxygenase thought to exclusively target actin, and MSRB, a methionine reductase, control the stereospecific redox status of M308, a highly conserved residue in the calmodulin-binding (CaM-binding) domain of CaMKII. Oxidized or mutant M308 (M308V) decreased CaM binding and CaMKII activity, while absence of MICAL1 in mice caused cardiac arrhythmias and premature death due to CaMKII hyperactivation. Mimicking the effects of M308 oxidation decreased fight-or-flight responses in mice, strikingly impaired heart function in Drosophila melanogaster, and caused disease protection in human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes with catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, a CaMKII-sensitive genetic arrhythmia syndrome. Our studies identify a stereospecific redox pathway that regulates cardiac physiological and pathological responses to stress across species.
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- Klitos Konstantinidis
- Division of Cardiology.,Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Graduate Institute of Biomedical and Bioinformatics, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan
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- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Cardiology.,Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering, School of Life Science, Hubei University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Frick Center for Heart Failure and Arrhythmia, Dorothy M. Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, USA
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- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Frick Center for Heart Failure and Arrhythmia, Dorothy M. Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.,Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.,Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, USA.,Department of Genetic Medicine
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- Division of Cardiology.,Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.,Department of Physiology, and
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.,Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Cardiology.,Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.,Department of Physiology, and
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Zhang C, Recacha R, Ruddock LW, Moilanen A. Efficient soluble production of folded cat allergen Fel d 1 in Escherichia coli. Protein Expr Purif 2020; 180:105809. [PMID: 33338588 DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2020.105809] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2020] [Revised: 12/10/2020] [Accepted: 12/11/2020] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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The major cat allergen Fel d 1 is one of the most common and potent causes of animal related allergy. Medical treatment of cat allergy has relied on immunotherapy carried out with cat dander extract. This approach has been problematic, mainly due to inconsistent levels of the major allergen in the produced extracts. Recombinant DNA technology has been proposed as an alternative method to produce more consistent pharmaceuticals for immunotherapy and diagnostics of allergy. Current approaches to produce recombinant Fel d 1 (recFel d 1) in the cytoplasm of Escherichia coli have however resulted in protein folding deficiencies and insoluble inclusion body formation, requiring elaborate in vitro processing to acquire folded material. In this study, we introduce an efficient method for cytoplasmic production of recFel d 1 that utilizes eukaryotic folding factors to aid recFel d 1 to fold and be produced in the soluble fraction of E. coli. The solubly expressed recFel d 1 is shown by biophysical in vitro experiments to contain structural disulfides, is extremely stable, and has a sensitivity for methionine sulfoxidation. The latter is discussed in the context of functional relevance.
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- Chi Zhang
- Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Oulu, Aapistie 7, 90220, Oulu, Finland.
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- Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Oulu, Aapistie 7, 90220, Oulu, Finland.
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- Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Oulu, Aapistie 7, 90220, Oulu, Finland.
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- Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Oulu, Aapistie 7, 90220, Oulu, Finland.
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Sasoni N, Hartman MD, Guerrero SA, Iglesias AA, Arias DG. Functional characterization of methionine sulfoxide reductases from Leptospira interrogans. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS 2020; 1869:140575. [PMID: 33242654 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2020.140575] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2020] [Revised: 11/17/2020] [Accepted: 11/20/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND Methionine (Met) oxidation leads to a racemic mixture of R and S forms of methionine sulfoxide (MetSO). Methionine sulfoxide reductases (Msr) are enzymes that can reduce specifically each isomer of MetSO, both free and protein-bound. The Met oxidation could change the structure and function of many proteins, not only of those redox-related but also of others involved in different metabolic pathways. Until now, there is no information about the presence or function of Msrs enzymes in Leptospira interrogans. METHODS We identified genes coding for putative MsrAs (A1 and A2) and MsrB in L. interrogans serovar Copenhageni strain Fiocruz L1-130 genome project. From these, we obtained the recombinant proteins and performed their functional characterization. RESULTS The recombinant L. interrogans MsrB catalyzed the reduction of Met(R)SO using glutaredoxin and thioredoxin as reducing substrates and behaves like a 1-Cys Msr (without resolutive Cys residue). It was able to partially revert the in vitro HClO-dependent inactivation of L. interrogans catalase. Both recombinant MsrAs reduced Met(S)SO, being the recycle mediated by the thioredoxin system. LinMsrAs were more efficient than LinMsrB for free and protein-bound MetSO reduction. Besides, LinMsrAs are enzymes involving a Cys triad in their catalytic mechanism. LinMsrs showed a dual localization, both in cytoplasm and periplasm. CONCLUSIONS AND GENERAL SIGNIFICANCE This article brings new knowledge about redox metabolism in L. interrogans. Our results support the occurrence of a metabolic pathway involved in the critical function of repairing oxidized macromolecules in this pathogen.
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- Natalia Sasoni
- Laboratorio de Enzimología Molecular, Instituto de Agrobiotecnología del Litoral (CONICET-UNL), Santa Fe, Argentina; Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Enzimología Molecular, Instituto de Agrobiotecnología del Litoral (CONICET-UNL), Santa Fe, Argentina; Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Enzimología Molecular, Instituto de Agrobiotecnología del Litoral (CONICET-UNL), Santa Fe, Argentina; Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Enzimología Molecular, Instituto de Agrobiotecnología del Litoral (CONICET-UNL), Santa Fe, Argentina; Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Enzimología Molecular, Instituto de Agrobiotecnología del Litoral (CONICET-UNL), Santa Fe, Argentina; Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina.
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Sánchez‐López C, Labadie N, Lombardo VA, Biglione FA, Manta B, Jacob RS, Gladyshev VN, Abdelilah‐Seyfried S, Selenko P, Binolfi A. An NMR‐Based Biosensor to Measure Stereospecific Methionine Sulfoxide Reductase Activities in Vitro and in Vivo**. Chemistry 2020; 26:14838-14843. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.202002645] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2020] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Carolina Sánchez‐López
- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario (IBR-CONICET-UNR) Ocampo y Esmeralda 2000 Rosario Argentina
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- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario (IBR-CONICET-UNR) Ocampo y Esmeralda 2000 Rosario Argentina
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- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario (IBR-CONICET-UNR) Ocampo y Esmeralda 2000 Rosario Argentina
- Centro de Estudios Interdisciplinarios (CEI) Universidad Nacional de Rosario 2000 Rosario Argentina
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- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario (IBR-CONICET-UNR) Ocampo y Esmeralda 2000 Rosario Argentina
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- Division of Genetics Department of Medicine Brigham and Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School Boston MA 02115 USA
- Facultad de Medicina Departamento de Bioquímica and Centro de Investigaciones Biomédicas Universidad de la República CP 11800 Montevideo Uruguay
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- Department of Biological Regulation Weizmann Institute of Science 234 Herzl Street 761000 Rehovot Israel
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- Division of Genetics Department of Medicine Brigham and Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School Boston MA 02115 USA
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biology Potsdam University 14476 Potsdam Germany
- Institute of Molecular Biology Hannover Medical School 30625 Hannover Germany
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- Department of Biological Regulation Weizmann Institute of Science 234 Herzl Street 761000 Rehovot Israel
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- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario (IBR-CONICET-UNR) Ocampo y Esmeralda 2000 Rosario Argentina
- Plataforma Argentina de Biología EstructuralyMetabolómica (PLABEM) Ocampo y Esmeralda 2000 Rosario Argentina
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Arias DG, Cabeza MS, Echarren ML, Faral-Tello P, Iglesias AA, Robello C, Guerrero SA. On the functionality of a methionine sulfoxide reductase B from Trypanosoma cruzi. Free Radic Biol Med 2020; 158:96-114. [PMID: 32682073 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2020.06.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2020] [Revised: 06/20/2020] [Accepted: 06/26/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND Methionine is an amino acid susceptible to be oxidized to give a racemic mixture of R and S forms of methionine sulfoxide (MetSO). This posttranslational modification has been reported to occur in vivo under either normal or stress conditions. The reduction of MetSO to methionine is catalyzed by methionine sulfoxide reductases (MSRs), thiol-dependent enzymes present in almost all organisms. These enzymes can reduce specifically one or another of the isomers of MetSO (free and protein-bound). This redox modification could change the structure and function of many proteins, either concerned in redox or other metabolic pathways. The study of antioxidant systems in Trypanosoma cruzi has been mainly focused on the involvement of trypanothione, a specific redox component for these organisms. Though, little information is available concerning mechanisms for repairing oxidized methionine residues in proteins, which would be relevant for the survival of these pathogens in the different stages of their life cycle. METHODS We report an in vitro functional and in vivo cellular characterization of methionine sulfoxide reductase B (MSRB, specific for protein-bound MetSO R-enantiomer) from T. cruzi strain Dm28c. RESULTS MSRB exhibited both cytosolic and mitochondrial localization in epimastigote cells. From assays involving parasites overexpressing MSRB, we observed the contribution of this protein to increase the general resistance against oxidative damage, the infectivity of trypomastigote cells, and intracellular replication of the amastigote stage. Also, we report that epimastigotes overexpressing MSRB exhibit inhibition of the metacyclogenesis process; this suggesting the involvement of the proteins as negative modulators in this cellular differentiation. CONCLUSIONS AND GENERAL SIGNIFICANCE This report contributes to novel insights concerning redox metabolism in T. cruzi. Results herein presented support the importance of enzymatic steps involved in the metabolism of L-Met and in repairing oxidized macromolecules in this parasite.
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- Diego G Arias
- Laboratorio de Enzimología Molecular - Instituto de Agrobiotecnología del Litoral (CONICET-UNL), Santa Fe, Argentina; Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas - Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina.
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- Laboratorio de Enzimología Molecular - Instituto de Agrobiotecnología del Litoral (CONICET-UNL), Santa Fe, Argentina; Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas - Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Enzimología Molecular - Instituto de Agrobiotecnología del Litoral (CONICET-UNL), Santa Fe, Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Interacción Hospedero-Patógeno, UBM, Instituto Pasteur de Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Laboratorio de Enzimología Molecular - Instituto de Agrobiotecnología del Litoral (CONICET-UNL), Santa Fe, Argentina; Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas - Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Interacción Hospedero-Patógeno, UBM, Instituto Pasteur de Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay; Departamento de Bioquímica - Facultad de Medicina - Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Laboratorio de Enzimología Molecular - Instituto de Agrobiotecnología del Litoral (CONICET-UNL), Santa Fe, Argentina; Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas - Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina
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Conner SC, Benayoun L, Himali JJ, Adams SL, Yang Q, DeCarli C, Blusztajn JK, Beiser A, Seshadri S, Delalle I. Methionine Sulfoxide Reductase-B3 Risk Allele Implicated in Alzheimer's Disease Associates with Increased Odds for Brain Infarcts. J Alzheimers Dis 2020; 68:357-365. [PMID: 30775993 DOI: 10.3233/jad-180977] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Genome-wide association studies identified a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the MSRB3 gene encoding Methionine Sulfoxide Reductase-B3 (MsrB3) to be associated with the risk for low hippocampal volume and late onset Alzheimer's disease (AD). Subsequently, we identified AD-associated abnormal patterns of neuronal and vascular MsrB3 expression in postmortem hippocampi. The present study investigated the relationship between the MSRB3 SNP rs61921502, G (minor/risk allele) and MRI measures of brain injury including total brain volume, hippocampal volume, and white matter hyperintensities using linear regression models; the presence of brain infarcts using logistic regression models; and the incidence of stroke, dementia, and AD using Cox proportional hazards models in 2,038 Framingham Heart Study Offspring participants with MRI administered close to examination cycle 7 (1998-2001). Participants with neurological conditions that impede evaluation of vascular pathology by MRI, i.e., brain tumors, multiple sclerosis, and major head trauma, were excluded from the study. When adjusted for age and age squared at MRI exam, sex, and presence of Apolipoproteinɛ4 allele (APOE4), individuals with MSRB3 rs61921502 minor allele had increased odds for brain infarcts on MRI compared to those with no minor allele. However, in stratified analyses, MSRB3 rs61921502 minor allele was significantly associated with increased odds for MRI brain infarcts only in the absence of APOE4.
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- Sarah C Conner
- Framingham Heart Study, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.,Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Framingham Heart Study, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.,Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.,Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Framingham Heart Study, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.,Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Framingham Heart Study, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.,Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.,Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Framingham Heart Study, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.,Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.,Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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Actin reduction by MsrB2 is a key component of the cytokinetic abscission checkpoint and prevents tetraploidy. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:4169-4179. [PMID: 32029597 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1911629117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Abscission is the terminal step of cytokinesis leading to the physical separation of the daughter cells. In response to the abnormal presence of lagging chromatin between dividing cells, an evolutionarily conserved abscission/NoCut checkpoint delays abscission and prevents formation of binucleated cells by stabilizing the cytokinetic intercellular bridge (ICB). How this bridge is stably maintained for hours while the checkpoint is activated is poorly understood and has been proposed to rely on F-actin in the bridge region. Here, we show that actin polymerization is indeed essential for stabilizing the ICB when lagging chromatin is present, but not in normal dividing cells. Mechanistically, we found that a cytosolic pool of human methionine sulfoxide reductase B2 (MsrB2) is strongly recruited at the midbody in response to the presence of lagging chromatin and functions within the ICB to promote actin polymerization there. Consistently, in MsrB2-depleted cells, F-actin levels are decreased in ICBs, and dividing cells with lagging chromatin become binucleated as a consequence of unstable bridges. We further demonstrate that MsrB2 selectively reduces oxidized actin monomers and thereby counteracts MICAL1, an enzyme known to depolymerize actin filaments by direct oxidation. Finally, MsrB2 colocalizes and genetically interacts with the checkpoint components Aurora B and ANCHR, and the abscission delay upon checkpoint activation by nuclear pore defects also depends on MsrB2. Altogether, this work reveals that actin reduction by MsrB2 is a key component of the abscission checkpoint that favors F-actin polymerization and limits tetraploidy, a starting point for tumorigenesis.
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Raskatov JA, Virgil S, Lee H, Henling LM, Chan K, Kuhn AJ, Foley AR. A Facile Method for the Separation of Methionine Sulfoxide Diastereomers, Structural Assignment, and DFT Analysis. Chemistry 2020; 26:4467-4470. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201904848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2019] [Revised: 12/18/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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- Jevgenij A. Raskatov
- Dept. of Chemistry and BiochemistryUCSC 1156 High Street Santa Cruz, California USA
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringUCSC 1200 E. California Blvd. Pasadena, California USA
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- Dept. of Chemistry and BiochemistryUCSC 1156 High Street Santa Cruz, California USA
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringUCSC 1200 E. California Blvd. Pasadena, California USA
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- Dept. of Chemistry and BiochemistryUCSC 1156 High Street Santa Cruz, California USA
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- Dept. of Chemistry and BiochemistryUCSC 1156 High Street Santa Cruz, California USA
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- Dept. of Chemistry and BiochemistryUCSC 1156 High Street Santa Cruz, California USA
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Zhang Y, He S, Bonneil É, Simpson BK. Generation of antioxidative peptides from Atlantic sea cucumber using alcalase versus trypsin: In vitro activity, de novo sequencing, and in silico docking for in vivo function prediction. Food Chem 2020; 306:125581. [DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2019.125581] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2019] [Revised: 09/04/2019] [Accepted: 09/23/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Chen Q, Xu S, Lu X, Boeri MV, Pepelyayeva Y, Diaz EL, Soni SD, Allaire M, Forstner MB, Bahnson BJ, Rozovsky S. 77Se NMR Probes the Protein Environment of Selenomethionine. J Phys Chem B 2020; 124:601-616. [PMID: 31846581 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b07466] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Sulfur is critical for the correct structure and proper function of proteins. Yet, lacking a sensitive enough isotope, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments are unable to deliver for sulfur in proteins the usual wealth of chemical, dynamic, and structural information. This limitation can be circumvented by substituting sulfur with selenium, which has similar physicochemical properties and minimal impact on protein structures but possesses an NMR compatible isotope (77Se). Here we exploit the sensitivity of 77Se NMR to the nucleus' chemical milieu and use selenomethionine as a probe for its proteinaceous environment. However, such selenium NMR spectra of proteins currently resist a reliable interpretation because systematic connections between variations of system variables and changes in 77Se NMR parameters are still lacking. To start narrowing this knowledge gap, we report here on a biological 77Se magnetic resonance data bank based on a systematically designed library of GB1 variants in which a single selenomethionine was introduced at different locations within the protein. We recorded the resulting isotropic 77Se chemical shifts and relaxation times for six GB1 variants by solution-state 77Se NMR. For four of the GB1 variants we were also able to determine the chemical shift anisotropy tensor of SeM by solid-state 77Se NMR. To enable interpretation of the NMR data, the structures of five of the GB1 variants were solved by X-ray crystallography to a resolution of 1.2 Å, allowing us to unambiguously determine the conformation of the selenomethionine. Finally, we combine our solution- and solid-state NMR data with the structural information to arrive at general insights regarding the execution and interpretation of 77Se NMR experiments that exploit selenomethionine to probe proteins.
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- Qingqing Chen
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , University of Delaware , Newark , Delaware 19716 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , University of Delaware , Newark , Delaware 19716 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , University of Delaware , Newark , Delaware 19716 , United States.,Instrumentation and Service Center for Physical Sciences , Westlake University , Hangzhou , Zhejiang 310024 , China
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , University of Delaware , Newark , Delaware 19716 , United States.,Neuroscience Department, Medical Toxicology Research Division , U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense , 8350 Ricketts Point Road , Gunpowder , Maryland 21010 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , University of Delaware , Newark , Delaware 19716 , United States.,Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, College of Osteopathic Medicine , Michigan State University , East Lansing , Michigan 48824 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , University of Delaware , Newark , Delaware 19716 , United States
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- Neuroscience Department, Medical Toxicology Research Division , U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense , 8350 Ricketts Point Road , Gunpowder , Maryland 21010 , United States
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- Berkeley Center for Structural Biology, Molecular Biophysics & Integrated Bioimaging , Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , Berkeley , California 94720 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , University of Delaware , Newark , Delaware 19716 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , University of Delaware , Newark , Delaware 19716 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , University of Delaware , Newark , Delaware 19716 , United States
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Bhattacharya A, Pulliam D, Liu Y, Salmon AB. Mitochondrial-targeted methionine sulfoxide reductase overexpression increases the production of oxidative stress in mitochondria from skeletal muscle. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2020; 2:45-51. [PMID: 33829213 PMCID: PMC8023689 DOI: 10.31491/apt.2020.03.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Objective: Mitochondrial dysfunction comprises part of the etiology of myriad health issues, particularly those that occur with advancing age. Methionine sulfoxide reductase A (MsrA) is a ubiquitous protein oxidation repair enzyme that specifically and catalytically reduces a specific epimer of oxidized methionine: methionine sulfoxide. In this study, we tested the ways in which mitochondrial bioenergetic functions are affected by increasing MsrA expression in different cellular compartments. Methods: In this study, we tested the function of isolated mitochondria, including free radical generation, ATP production, and respiration, from the skeletal muscle of two lines of transgenic mice with increased MsrA expression: mitochondria-targeted MsrA overexpression or cytosol-targeted MsrA overexpression. Results: Surprisingly, in the samples from mice with mitochondrial-targeted MsrA overexpression, we found dramatically increased free radical production though no specific defect in respiration, ATP production, or membrane potential. Among the electron transport chain complexes, we found the activity of complex I was specifically reduced in mitochondrial MsrA transgenic mice. In mice with cytosolic-targeted MsrA overexpression, we found no significant alteration made to any of these parameters of mitochondrial energetics. Conclusions: There is also a growing amount of evidence that MsrA is a functional requirement for sustaining optimal mitochondrial respiration and free radical generation. MsrA is also known to play a partial role in maintaining normal protein homeostasis by specifically repairing oxidized proteins. Our studies highlight a potential novel role for MsrA in regulating the activity of mitochondrial function through its interaction with the mitochondrial proteome.
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- Arunabh Bhattacharya
- The Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio TX, USA.,Department of Cellular & Structural Anatomy, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio TX, USA.,Department of Clinically Applied Science Education, University of the Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- The Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio TX, USA
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- The Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio TX, USA
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- The Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio TX, USA.,Department of Molecular Medicine, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio TX, USA.,Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center, South Texas Veterans Healthcare System, San Antonio TX, USA
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Shelkovnikov VV, Altyev AM, Vinogradov ME. Determination of Methionine in Medicines by Stripping Voltammetry. JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY 2019. [DOI: 10.1134/s1061934819120116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Zang J, Chen Y, Zhu W, Lin S. Chemoselective Methionine Bioconjugation on a Polypeptide, Protein, and Proteome. Biochemistry 2019; 59:132-138. [PMID: 31592657 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.9b00789] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Methionine is one of the most hydrophobic, redox-sensitive, and one of the only two sulfur-containing amino acids on protein. Because of these biochemical properties, the methionine residue plays a central role in a variety of biological processes, such as metal coordination, antioxidant stress, and aging. However, studies on the molecular functions of methionine are much less common than the other primary sulfur-containing amino acid, cysteine. The limited number of publications on methionine-related studies is partially due to the lack of tools for methionine modification. Methionine bioconjugation offers a new strategy to decipher the biological function of methionine and expands the toolbox for protein functionalization in the context of the application, such as synthesizing proteins with novel properties and producing new biomaterials. The purpose of this Perspective is to highlight the biochemical properties and functions of methionine, list recent progress in the development of methionine bioconjugation reagents, and briefly demonstrate the application of these reagents on polypeptides, proteins, and proteomes.
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- Jia Zang
- Life Sciences Institute , Zhejiang University , Hangzhou 310058 , China
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- Life Sciences Institute , Zhejiang University , Hangzhou 310058 , China
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- Life Sciences Institute , Zhejiang University , Hangzhou 310058 , China
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- Life Sciences Institute , Zhejiang University , Hangzhou 310058 , China
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Aledo JC. Methionine in proteins: The Cinderella of the proteinogenic amino acids. Protein Sci 2019; 28:1785-1796. [PMID: 31359525 DOI: 10.1002/pro.3698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2019] [Revised: 07/18/2019] [Accepted: 07/22/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Methionine in proteins, apart from its role in the initiation of translation, is assumed to play a simple structural role in the hydrophobic core, in a similar way to other hydrophobic amino acids such as leucine, isoleucine, and valine. However, research from a number of laboratories supports the concept that methionine serves as an important cellular antioxidant, stabilizes the structure of proteins, participates in the sequence-independent recognition of protein surfaces, and can act as a regulatory switch through reversible oxidation and reduction. Despite all these evidences, the role of methionine in protein structure and function is largely overlooked by most biochemists. Thus, the main aim of the current article is not so much to carry out an exhaustive review of the many and diverse processes in which methionine residues are involved, but to review some illustrative examples that may help the nonspecialized reader to form a richer and more precise insight regarding the role-played by methionine residues in such processes.
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- Juan C Aledo
- Departamento de Biología Molecular y Bioquímica. Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain
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Kappler U, Nasreen M, McEwan A. New insights into the molecular physiology of sulfoxide reduction in bacteria. Adv Microb Physiol 2019; 75:1-51. [PMID: 31655735 DOI: 10.1016/bs.ampbs.2019.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Sulfoxides occur in biology as products of the S-oxygenation of small molecules as well as in peptides and proteins and their formation is often associated with oxidative stress and can affect biological function. In bacteria, sulfoxide damage can be reversed by different types of enzymes. Thioredoxin-dependent peptide methionine sulfoxide reductases (MSR proteins) repair oxidized methionine residues and are found in all Domains of life. In bacteria MSR proteins are often found in the cytoplasm but in some bacteria, including pathogenic Neisseria, Streptococci, and Haemophilus they are extracytoplasmic. Mutants lacking MSR proteins are often sensitive to oxidative stress and in pathogens exhibit decreased virulence as indicated by reduced survival in host cell or animal model systems. Molybdenum enzymes are also known to reduce S-oxides and traditionally their physiological role was considered to be in anaerobic respiration using dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) as an electron acceptor. However, it now appears that some enzymes (MtsZ) of the DMSO reductase family of Mo enzymes use methionine sulfoxide as preferred physiological substrate and thus may be involved in scavenging/recycling of this amino acid. Similarly, an enzyme (MsrP/YedY) of the sulfite oxidase family of Mo enzymes has been shown to be involved in repair of methionine sulfoxides in periplasmic proteins. Again, some mutants deficient in Mo-dependent sulfoxide reductases exhibit reduced virulence, and there is evidence that these Mo enzymes and some MSR systems are induced by hypochlorite produced by the innate immune system. This review describes recent advances in the understanding of the molecular microbiology of MSR systems and the broadening of the role of Mo-dependent sulfoxide reductase to encompass functions beyond anaerobic respiration.
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- Ulrike Kappler
- Australian Infectious Diseases Research Centre, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Australian Infectious Diseases Research Centre, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Australian Infectious Diseases Research Centre, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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Ward NP, DeNicola GM. Sulfur metabolism and its contribution to malignancy. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2019; 347:39-103. [PMID: 31451216 DOI: 10.1016/bs.ircmb.2019.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Metabolic dysregulation is an appreciated hallmark of cancer and a target for therapeutic intervention. Cellular metabolism involves a series of oxidation/reduction (redox) reactions that yield the energy and biomass required for tumor growth. Cells require diverse molecular species with constituent sulfur atoms to facilitate these processes. For humans, this sulfur is derived from the dietary consumption of the proteinogenic amino acids cysteine and methionine, as only lower organisms (e.g., bacteria, fungi, and plants) can synthesize them de novo. In addition to providing the sulfur required to sustain redox chemistry, the metabolism of these sulfur-containing amino acids yield intermediate metabolites that constitute the cellular antioxidant system, mediate inter- and intracellular signaling, and facilitate the epigenetic regulation of gene expression, all of which contribute to tumorigenesis.
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- Nathan P Ward
- Department of Cancer Physiology, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, United States
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- Department of Cancer Physiology, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, United States.
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Sbodio JI, Snyder SH, Paul BD. Redox Mechanisms in Neurodegeneration: From Disease Outcomes to Therapeutic Opportunities. Antioxid Redox Signal 2019; 30:1450-1499. [PMID: 29634350 PMCID: PMC6393771 DOI: 10.1089/ars.2017.7321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2017] [Revised: 03/16/2018] [Accepted: 03/18/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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SIGNIFICANCE Once considered to be mere by-products of metabolism, reactive oxygen, nitrogen and sulfur species are now recognized to play important roles in diverse cellular processes such as response to pathogens and regulation of cellular differentiation. It is becoming increasingly evident that redox imbalance can impact several signaling pathways. For instance, disturbances of redox regulation in the brain mediate neurodegeneration and alter normal cytoprotective responses to stress. Very often small disturbances in redox signaling processes, which are reversible, precede damage in neurodegeneration. Recent Advances: The identification of redox-regulated processes, such as regulation of biochemical pathways involved in the maintenance of redox homeostasis in the brain has provided deeper insights into mechanisms of neuroprotection and neurodegeneration. Recent studies have also identified several post-translational modifications involving reactive cysteine residues, such as nitrosylation and sulfhydration, which fine-tune redox regulation. Thus, the study of mechanisms via which cell death occurs in several neurodegenerative disorders, reveal several similarities and dissimilarities. Here, we review redox regulated events that are disrupted in neurodegenerative disorders and whose modulation affords therapeutic opportunities. CRITICAL ISSUES Although accumulating evidence suggests that redox imbalance plays a significant role in progression of several neurodegenerative diseases, precise understanding of redox regulated events is lacking. Probes and methodologies that can precisely detect and quantify in vivo levels of reactive oxygen, nitrogen and sulfur species are not available. FUTURE DIRECTIONS Due to the importance of redox control in physiologic processes, organisms have evolved multiple pathways to counteract redox imbalance and maintain homeostasis. Cells and tissues address stress by harnessing an array of both endogenous and exogenous redox active substances. Targeting these pathways can help mitigate symptoms associated with neurodegeneration and may provide avenues for novel therapeutics. Antioxid. Redox Signal. 30, 1450-1499.
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- Juan I. Sbodio
- The Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- The Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
- Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
- Department of Psychiatry, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- The Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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Global analysis of methionine oxidation provides a census of folding stabilities for the human proteome. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2019; 116:6081-6090. [PMID: 30846556 PMCID: PMC6442572 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1819851116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Most natural proteins fold into a native folded conformation stabilized by noncovalent interactions. The free-energy difference between the folded and unfolded conformations of a protein (“thermodynamic folding stability”) establishes the fraction of its population that is in a folded conformation at equilibrium. Here, we used a mass spectrometry-based approach to measure the stabilities of ∼10,000 unique domains within ∼3,000 proteins in human cell extracts. Our data provide a global census of the magnitudes of folding stabilities within the human proteome and identify specific subsets of the proteome that are enriched in stable and unstable domains. We also show that the stability of proteins impacts their tendency to become oxidized and is globally altered by the chemical chaperone trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO). The stability of proteins influences their tendency to aggregate, undergo degradation, or become modified in cells. Despite their significance to understanding protein folding and function, quantitative analyses of thermodynamic stabilities have been mostly limited to soluble proteins in purified systems. We have used a highly multiplexed proteomics approach, based on analyses of methionine oxidation rates, to quantify stabilities of ∼10,000 unique regions within ∼3,000 proteins in human cell extracts. The data identify lysosomal and extracellular proteins as the most stable ontological subsets of the proteome. We show that the stability of proteins impacts their tendency to become oxidized and is globally altered by the osmolyte trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO). We also show that most proteins designated as intrinsically disordered retain their unfolded structure in the complex environment of the cell. Together, the data provide a census of the stability of the human proteome and validate a methodology for global quantitation of folding thermodynamics.
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Reichmann D, Voth W, Jakob U. Maintaining a Healthy Proteome during Oxidative Stress. Mol Cell 2019; 69:203-213. [PMID: 29351842 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2017.12.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2017] [Revised: 12/11/2017] [Accepted: 12/21/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Some of the most challenging stress conditions that organisms encounter during their lifetime involve the transient accumulation of reactive oxygen and chlorine species. Extremely reactive to amino acid side chains, these oxidants cause widespread protein unfolding and aggregation. It is therefore not surprising that cells draw on a variety of different strategies to counteract the damage and maintain a healthy proteome. Orchestrated largely by direct changes in the thiol oxidation status of key proteins, the response strategies involve all layers of protein protection. Reprogramming of basic biological functions helps decrease nascent protein synthesis and restore redox homeostasis. Mobilization of oxidative stress-activated chaperones and production of stress-resistant non-proteinaceous chaperones prevent irreversible protein aggregation. Finally, redox-controlled increase in proteasome activity removes any irreversibly damaged proteins. Together, these systems pave the way to restore protein homeostasis and enable organisms to survive stress conditions that are inevitable when living an aerobic lifestyle.
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- Dana Reichmann
- Department of Biological Chemistry, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Safra Campus Givat Ram, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048, USA.
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The Oxidized Protein Repair Enzymes Methionine Sulfoxide Reductases and Their Roles in Protecting against Oxidative Stress, in Ageing and in Regulating Protein Function. Antioxidants (Basel) 2018; 7:antiox7120191. [PMID: 30545068 PMCID: PMC6316033 DOI: 10.3390/antiox7120191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2018] [Revised: 11/30/2018] [Accepted: 12/01/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Cysteine and methionine residues are the amino acids most sensitive to oxidation by reactive oxygen species. However, in contrast to other amino acids, certain cysteine and methionine oxidation products can be reduced within proteins by dedicated enzymatic repair systems. Oxidation of cysteine first results in either the formation of a disulfide bridge or a sulfenic acid. Sulfenic acid can be converted to disulfide or sulfenamide or further oxidized to sulfinic acid. Disulfide can be easily reversed by different enzymatic systems such as the thioredoxin/thioredoxin reductase and the glutaredoxin/glutathione/glutathione reductase systems. Methionine side chains can also be oxidized by reactive oxygen species. Methionine oxidation, by the addition of an extra oxygen atom, leads to the generation of methionine sulfoxide. Enzymatically catalyzed reduction of methionine sulfoxide is achieved by either methionine sulfoxide reductase A or methionine sulfoxide reductase B, also referred as to the methionine sulfoxide reductases system. This oxidized protein repair system is further described in this review article in terms of its discovery and biologically relevant characteristics, and its important physiological roles in protecting against oxidative stress, in ageing and in regulating protein function.
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SIGNIFICANCE Aging is a complex trait that is influenced by a combination of genetic and environmental factors. Although many cellular and physiological changes have been described to occur with aging, the precise molecular causes of aging remain unknown. Given the biological complexity and heterogeneity of the aging process, understanding the mechanisms that underlie aging requires integration of data about age-dependent changes that occur at the molecular, cellular, tissue, and organismal levels. Recent Advances: The development of high-throughput technologies such as next-generation sequencing, proteomics, metabolomics, and automated imaging techniques provides researchers with new opportunities to understand the mechanisms of aging. Using these methods, millions of biological molecules can be simultaneously monitored during the aging process with high accuracy and specificity. CRITICAL ISSUES Although the ability to produce big data has drastically increased over the years, integration and interpreting of high-throughput data to infer regulatory relationships between biological factors and identify causes of aging remain the major challenges. In this review, we describe recent advances and survey emerging omics approaches in aging research. We then discuss their limitations and emphasize the need for the further development of methods for the integration of different types of data. FUTURE DIRECTIONS Combining omics approaches and novel methods for single-cell analysis with systems biology tools would allow building interaction networks and investigate how these networks are perturbed with aging and disease states. Together, these studies are expected to provide a better understanding of the aging process and could provide insights into the pathophysiology of many age-associated human diseases. Antioxid. Redox Signal. 29, 985-1002.
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- Jared S Lorusso
- 1 Department of Dermatology, Boston University School of Medicine , Boston, Massachusetts
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- 2 Department of Ecology and Life Safety, Samara National Research University , Samara, Russia
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- 1 Department of Dermatology, Boston University School of Medicine , Boston, Massachusetts
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