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Li J, Hao R, Zhang J, Shan B, Xu X, Li Y, Ye Y, Xu H. Proteomics study on immobilization of Pb(II) by Penicillium polonicum. Fungal Biol 2022; 126:449-460. [DOI: 10.1016/j.funbio.2022.04.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2022] [Revised: 04/23/2022] [Accepted: 04/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Sharma P, Singla N, Dhawan DK. Evidence of Zinc in Affording Protection Against X-Ray-Induced Brain Injury in Rats. Biol Trace Elem Res 2017; 179:247-258. [PMID: 28261760 DOI: 10.1007/s12011-017-0976-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2017] [Accepted: 02/15/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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In the present world, X-rays have been regarded as one of the most efficient tools in medicine, industry and research. On the contrary, extensive human exposure to these rays is responsible for causing detrimental effects on physiological system. The aim of the present study was to investigate the role of zinc (Zn), if any, in mitigating the adverse effects induced by fractionated X-irradiation on rat brain. Female Sprague-Dawley rats weighing 170-200 g were divided into four different groups viz.: (a) normal control, (b) X-irradiated (21Gy), (c) zinc treated (227 mg/L in drinking water) and (d) X-irradiated + zinc treated. The skulls of animals belonging to groups (b) and (d) were exposed to X-rays in 30 fractions. Each fraction delivered a radiation dose of 70 rads, and rats were exposed to two fractions every day for 15 days, consecutively. X-ray treatment resulted in significant alterations in the neurobehavior, neurotransmitter levels and neuro-histoarchitecture of rats, whereas zinc co-treatment with X-rays resulted in significant improvement in these parameters. X-ray exposure also caused a significant increase in the levels of lipid peroxidation as well as activities of catalase and superoxide dismutase, which however were decreased upon simultaneous Zn treatment. On the contrary, X-ray treatment down-regulated the glutathione system, which were found to be up-regulated by zinc co-treatment. Further, protein expressions of p53 and NF-ҚB were found to be significantly elevated after X-irradiation, which were reversed following Zn supplementation. Hence, Zn seems to be an effective agent in mitigating the detrimental effects caused by exposure to X-rays.
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- Priyanka Sharma
- Department of Biophysics, Panjab University, Sector-25, Chandigarh, 160014, India
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- Department of Biophysics, Panjab University, Sector-25, Chandigarh, 160014, India.
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- Department of Biophysics, Panjab University, Sector-25, Chandigarh, 160014, India.
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Formaldehyde is the simplest of all aldehydes and is highly cytotoxic. Its use and associated dangers from environmental exposure have been well documented. Detoxification systems for formaldehyde are found throughout the biological world and they are especially important in methylotrophic bacteria, which generate this compound as part of their metabolism of methanol. Formaldehyde metabolizing systems can be divided into those dependent upon pterin cofactors, sugar phosphates and those dependent upon glutathione. The more prevalent thiol-dependent formaldehyde detoxification system is found in many bacterial pathogens, almost all of which do not metabolize methane or methanol. This review describes the endogenous and exogenous sources of formaldehyde, its toxic effects and mechanisms of detoxification. The methods of formaldehyde sensing are also described with a focus on the formaldehyde responsive transcription factors HxlR, FrmR, and NmlR. Finally, the physiological relevance of detoxification systems for formaldehyde in bacterial pathogens is discussed.
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- Nathan H Chen
- School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia QLD, Australia
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- School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia QLD, Australia
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- INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université du Québec, Laval QC, Canada
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- School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia QLD, Australia
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Hopkinson RJ, Leung IKH, Smart TJ, Rose NR, Henry L, Claridge TDW, Schofield CJ. Studies on the Glutathione-Dependent Formaldehyde-Activating Enzyme from Paracoccus denitrificans. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0145085. [PMID: 26675168 PMCID: PMC4682968 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0145085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2015] [Accepted: 11/26/2015] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Formaldehyde is a toxin and carcinogen that is both an environmental pollutant and an endogenous metabolite. Formaldehyde metabolism, which is probably essential for all aerobic cells, likely proceeds via multiple mechanisms, including via a glutathione-dependent pathway that is widely conserved in bacteria, plants and animals. However, it is unclear whether the first step in the glutathione-dependent pathway (i.e. formation of S-hydroxymethylglutathione (HMG)) is enzyme-catalysed. We report studies on glutathione-dependent formaldehyde-activating enzyme (GFA) from Paracoccus denitrificans, which has been proposed to catalyse HMG formation from glutathione and formaldehyde on the basis of studies using NMR exchange spectroscopy (EXSY). Although we were able to replicate the EXSY results, time course experiments unexpectedly imply that GFA does not catalyse HMG formation under standard conditions. However, GFA was observed to bind glutathione using NMR and mass spectrometry. Overall, the results reveal that GFA binds glutathione but does not directly catalyse HMG formation under standard conditions. Thus, it is possible that GFA acts as a glutathione carrier that acts to co-localise glutathione and formaldehyde in a cellular context.
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- Richard J. Hopkinson
- Chemistry Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Chemistry Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- School of Chemical Sciences, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Chemistry Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Chemistry Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Chemistry Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Chemistry Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Chemistry Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Oka T, Komachi Y, Ohshima K, Kawano Y, Fukuda K, Nagahama K, Ekino K, Nomura Y. Isolation, sequencing, and heterologous expression of the Paecilomyces variotii gene encoding S-hydroxymethylglutathione dehydrogenase (fldA). Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2014; 99:1755-63. [PMID: 25398285 PMCID: PMC4322224 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-014-6203-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2014] [Revised: 10/29/2014] [Accepted: 10/30/2014] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The filamentous fungus Paecilomyces variotii NBRC 109023 (teleomorph: Byssochlamys spectabilis NBRC 109023) degrades formaldehyde at concentrations as high as 2.4 % (w/v). In many prokaryotes and in all known eukaryotes, formaldehyde degradation is catalyzed by S-hydroxymethylglutathione (S-HMGSH) dehydrogenase. We report here the isolation and characterization of the gene encoding S-HMGSH dehydrogenase activity in P. variotii. The 1.6-kb fldA gene contained 5 introns and 6 exons, and the corresponding cDNA was 1143 bp, encoding a 40-kDa protein composed of 380 amino acids. FldA was predicted to have 74.3, 73.7, 68.5, and 67.4 % amino acid identity to the S-HMGSH dehydrogenases of Hansenula polymorpha, Candida boidinii, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and Kluyveromyces lactis, respectively. The predicted protein also showed high amino acid similarity (84∼86 %) to the products of putative fldA genes from other filamentous fungi, including Aspergillus sp. and Penicillium sp. Notably, the P. variotii fldA gene was able to functionally complement a Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain (BY4741 ∆sfa1) lacking the gene for S-HMGSH dehydrogenase. The heterologous expression construct rendered BY4741 ∆sfa1 tolerant to exogenous formaldehyde. Although BY4741 (parental wild-type strain) was unable to degrade even low concentrations of formaldehyde, BY4741 ∆sfa1 harboring Paecilomyces fldA was able to degrade 4 mM formaldehyde within 30 h. The findings from this study confirm the essential role of S-HMGSH dehydrogenase in detoxifying formaldehyde.
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- Takuji Oka
- Department of Applied Microbial Technology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Life Science, Sojo University, Ikeda 4-22-1, Kumamoto, 860-0082 Japan
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- Department of Applied Microbial Technology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Life Science, Sojo University, Ikeda 4-22-1, Kumamoto, 860-0082 Japan
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- Department of Applied Microbial Technology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Life Science, Sojo University, Ikeda 4-22-1, Kumamoto, 860-0082 Japan
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- Department of Applied Microbial Technology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Life Science, Sojo University, Ikeda 4-22-1, Kumamoto, 860-0082 Japan
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- Department of Applied Microbial Technology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Life Science, Sojo University, Ikeda 4-22-1, Kumamoto, 860-0082 Japan
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- Department of Applied Microbial Technology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Life Science, Sojo University, Ikeda 4-22-1, Kumamoto, 860-0082 Japan
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- Department of Applied Microbial Technology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Life Science, Sojo University, Ikeda 4-22-1, Kumamoto, 860-0082 Japan
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- Department of Applied Microbial Technology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Life Science, Sojo University, Ikeda 4-22-1, Kumamoto, 860-0082 Japan
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MacKinnon SS, Malevanets A, Wodak S. Intertwined Associations in Structures of Homooligomeric Proteins. Structure 2013; 21:638-49. [DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2013.01.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2012] [Revised: 12/24/2012] [Accepted: 01/15/2013] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Honda ZI, Suzuki T, Honda H. Identification of CENP-V as a novel microtubule-associating molecule that activates Src family kinases through SH3 domain interaction. Genes Cells 2009; 14:1383-94. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2443.2009.01355.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Tadeu AM, Ribeiro S, Johnston J, Goldberg I, Gerloff D, Earnshaw WC. CENP-V is required for centromere organization, chromosome alignment and cytokinesis. EMBO J 2008; 27:2510-22. [PMID: 18772885 DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2008.175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2007] [Accepted: 07/31/2008] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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The mechanism of mitotic chromosome condensation is poorly understood, but even less is known about the mechanism of formation of the primary constriction, or centromere. A proteomic analysis of mitotic chromosome scaffolds led to the identification of CENP-V, a novel kinetochore protein related to a bacterial enzyme that detoxifies formaldehyde, a by-product of histone demethylation in eukaryotic cells. Overexpression of CENP-V leads to hypercondensation of pericentromeric heterochromatin, a phenotype that is abolished by mutations in the putative catalytic site. CENP-V depletion in HeLa cells leads to abnormal expansion of the primary constriction of mitotic chromosomes, mislocalization and destabilization of the chromosomal passenger complex (CPC) and alterations in the distribution of H3K9me3 in interphase nucleoplasm. CENP-V-depleted cells suffer defects in chromosome alignment in metaphase, lagging chromosomes in anaphase, failure of cytokinesis and rapid cell death. CENP-V provides a novel link between centromeric chromatin, the primary constriction and the CPC.
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Lery LM, von Krüger WM, Viana FC, Teixeira KR, Bisch PM. A comparative proteomic analysis of Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus PAL5 at exponential and stationary phases of cultures in the presence of high and low levels of inorganic nitrogen compound. Biochim Biophys Acta 2008; 1784:1578-89. [PMID: 18662807 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2008.06.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2008] [Revised: 06/07/2008] [Accepted: 06/23/2008] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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A proteomic view of G. diazotrophicus PAL5 at the exponential (E) and stationary phases (S) of cultures in the presence of low (L) and high levels (H) of combined nitrogen is presented. The proteomes analyzed on 2D-gels showed 131 proteins (42E+32S+29H+28L) differentially expressed by G. diazotrophicus, from which 46 were identified by combining mass spectrometry and bioinformatics tools. Proteins related to cofactor, energy and DNA metabolisms and cytoplasmic pH homeostasis were differentially expressed in E growth phase, under L and H conditions, in line with the high metabolic rate of the cells and the low pH of the media. Proteins most abundant in S-phase cells were stress associated and transporters plus transferases in agreement with the general phenomenon that binding protein-dependent systems are induced under nutrient limitation as part of hunger response. Cells grown in L condition produced nitrogen-fixation accessory proteins with roles in biosynthesis and stabilization of the nitrogenase complex plus proteins for protection of the nitrogenases from O(2)-induced inactivation. Proteins of the cell wall biogenesis apparatus were also expressed under nitrogen limitation and might function in the reshaping of the nitrogen-fixing G. diazotrophicus cells previously described. Genes whose protein products were detected in our analysis were mapped onto the chromosome and, based on the tendency of functionally related bacterial genes to cluster, we identified genes of particular pathways that could be organized in operons and are co-regulated. These results showed the great potential of proteomics to describe events in G. diazotrophicus cells by looking at proteins expressed under distinct growth conditions.
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Formaldehyde is an intermediate formed during the metabolism of methanol or other methylated compounds. Many Gram-negative bacteria generate formaldehyde from methanol via a periplasmic pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ)-dependent dehydrogenase in which the alpha subunit of an alpha(2)beta(2) tetramer has catalytic activity. The genome of the facultative formaldehyde-oxidizing bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides encodes XoxF, a homologue of the catalytic subunit of a proposed PQQ-containing dehydrogenase of Paracoccus denitrificans. R. sphaeroides xoxF is part of a gene cluster that encodes periplasmic c-type cytochromes, including CycI, isocytochrome c(2) and CycB (a cyt c(553i) homologue), as well as adhI, a glutathione-dependent formaldehyde dehydrogenase (GSH-FDH), and gfa, a homologue of a glutathione-formaldehyde activating enzyme (Gfa). To test the roles of XoxF, CycB and Gfa in formaldehyde metabolism by R. sphaeroides, we monitored photosynthetic growth with methanol as a source of formaldehyde and whole-cell methanol-dependent oxygen uptake. Our data show that R. sphaeroides cells lacking XoxF or CycB do not exhibit methanol-dependent oxygen uptake and lack the capacity to utilize methanol as a sole photosynthetic carbon source. These results suggest that both proteins are required for formaldehyde metabolism. R. sphaeroides Gfa is not essential to activate formaldehyde, as cells lacking gfa are capable of both methanol-dependent oxygen uptake and growth with methanol as a photosynthetic carbon source.
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- Shondelle M Wilson
- Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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The thiol-based redox regulation of proteins plays a central role in cellular signaling. Here, we investigated the redox regulation at the Zn(2+) binding site (HX(5)CX(20)CC) in the intracellular T1-T1 inter-subunit interface of a Kv4 channel. This site undergoes conformational changes coupled to voltage-dependent gating, which may be sensitive to oxidative stress. The main results show that internally applied nitric oxide (NO) inhibits channel activity profoundly. This inhibition is reversed by reduced glutathione and suppressed by intracellular Zn(2+), and at least two Zn(2+) site cysteines are required to observe the NO-induced inhibition (Cys-110 from one subunit and Cys-132 from the neighboring subunit). Biochemical evidence suggests strongly that NO induces a disulfide bridge between Cys-110 and Cys-132 in intact cells. Finally, further mutational studies suggest that intra-subunit Zn(2+) coordination involving His-104, Cys-131, and Cys-132 protects against the formation of the inhibitory disulfide bond. We propose that the interfacial T1 Zn(2+) site of Kv4 channels acts as a Zn(2+)-dependent redox switch that may regulate the activity of neuronal and cardiac A-type K(+) currents under physiological and pathological conditions.
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- Guangyu Wang
- Department of Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, USA.
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Zinc/cysteine coordination environments in proteins are redox-active. Oxidation of the sulfur ligands mobilizes zinc, while reduction of the oxidized ligands enhances zinc binding, providing redox control over the availability of zinc ions. Some zinc proteins are redox sensors, in which zinc release is coupled to conformational changes that control varied functions such as enzymatic activity, binding interactions, and molecular chaperone activity. Whereas the released zinc ion in redox sensors has no known function, the redox signal is transduced to specific and sensitive zinc signals in redox transducers. Released zinc can bind to sites on other proteins and modulate signal transduction, generation of metabolic energy, mitochondrial function, and gene expression. The paradigm of such redox transducers is the zinc protein metallothionein, which, together with its apoprotein, thionein, functions at a central node in cellular signaling by redistributing cellular zinc, presiding over the availability of zinc, and interconverting redox and zinc signals. In this regard, the transduction of nitric oxide (NO) signals into zinc signals by metallothionein has received particular attention. It appears that redox-inert zinc has been chosen to control some aspects of cellular thiol/disulfide redox metabolism. Tight control of zinc is essential for redox homeostasis because both increases and decreases of cellular zinc elicit oxidative stress. Depending on its availability, zinc can be cytoprotective as a pro-antioxidant or cytotoxic as a pro-oxidant. Any condition with acute or chronic oxidative stress is expected to perturb zinc homeostasis.
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- Wolfgang Maret
- Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, 77555, USA.
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