Structure, function, and mechanism of thioredoxin proteins

JF Collet, J Messens - Antioxidants & redox signaling, 2010 - liebertpub.com
Thioredoxins are ubiquitous antioxidant enzymes that play important roles in many health-
related cellular processes. As such, the fundamental knowledge of how these enzymes work …

Redox homeostasis in photosynthetic organisms: novel and established thiol-based molecular mechanisms

M Zaffagnini, S Fermani, CH Marchand… - Antioxidants & Redox …, 2019 - liebertpub.com
Significance: Redox homeostasis consists of an intricate network of reactions in which
reactive molecular species, redox modifications, and redox proteins act in concert to allow …

The crystal structure of yeast protein disulfide isomerase suggests cooperativity between its active sites

G Tian, S Xiang, R Noiva, WJ Lennarz, H Schindelin - Cell, 2006 - cell.com
Protein disulfide isomerase plays a key role in catalyzing the folding of secretory proteins. It
features two catalytically inactive thioredoxin domains inserted between two catalytically …

Reactivity of thioredoxin as a protein thiol-disulfide oxidoreductase

Z Cheng, J Zhang, DP Ballou, CH Williams Jr - Chemical reviews, 2011 - ACS Publications
Thiol-disulfide reactions are crucial for redox homeostasis in the cell. 1, 2 As a disulfide
oxidoreductase, thioredoxin (Trx,∼ 12 kDa) regulates a wide variety of biological molecules …

Structural and evolutionary aspects of thioredoxin reductases in photosynthetic organisms

JP Jacquot, H Eklund, N Rouhier, P Schürmann - Trends in plant science, 2009 - cell.com
Thioredoxins (Trxs) are small oxidoreductases that are involved in redox homeostasis and
are found in large numbers in the subcellular compartments of eukaryotic plant cells …

Oxidative stress and thioredoxin system.

M Koharyova, M Kolarova - General physiology and biophysics, 2008 - europepmc.org
Oxidative stress plays an important role in the modulation of several important physiological
functions. On the other side, oxidative stress is accountable for development of many …

Conferring specificity in redox pathways by enzymatic thiol/disulfide exchange reactions

LES Netto, MA de Oliveira, CA Tairum… - Free Radical …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Thiol–disulfide exchange reactions are highly reversible, displaying nucleophilic
substitutions mechanism (SN 2 type). For aliphatic, low molecular thiols, these reactions are …

Enzymatic catalysis: the emerging role of conceptual density functional theory

G Roos, P Geerlings, J Messens - The Journal of Physical …, 2009 - ACS Publications
Experimentalists and quantum chemists are living in a different world. A wealth of theoretical
enzymology-related publications is hardly known by experimentalists, and vice versa. Our …

Structural basis for target protein recognition by the protein disulfide reductase thioredoxin

K Maeda, P Hägglund, C Finnie, B Svensson… - Structure, 2006 - cell.com
Thioredoxin is ubiquitous and regulates various target proteins through disulfide bond
reduction. We report the structure of thioredoxin (HvTrxh2 from barley) in a reaction …

Cross-reactivity and 1.4-A crystal structure of Malassezia sympodialis thioredoxin (Mala s 13), a member of a new pan-allergen family

A Limacher, AG Glaser, C Meier… - The Journal of …, 2007 - journals.aai.org
We have identified thioredoxins (Trx) of Malassezia sympodialis, a yeast involved in the
pathogenesis of atopic eczema, and of Aspergillus fumigatus, a fungus involved in …