Experimental approaches for investigating disulfide-based redox relays in cells

JD West - Chemical research in toxicology, 2022 - ACS Publications
Reversible oxidation of cysteine residues within proteins occurs naturally during normal
cellular homeostasis and can increase during oxidative stress. Cysteine oxidation often …

The central role of redox-regulated switch proteins in bacteria

R Fassler, L Zuily, N Lahrach, M Ilbert… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Bacteria possess the ability to adapt to changing environments. To enable this, cells use
reversible post-translational modifications on key proteins to modulate their behavior …

Transcriptomic Insights into the Effect of Melatonin in Saccharomyces cerevisiae in the Presence and Absence of Oxidative Stress

M Sunyer-Figueres, J Vázquez, A Mas, MJ Torija… - Antioxidants, 2020 - mdpi.com
Melatonin is a ubiquitous indolamine that plays important roles in various aspects of
biological processes in mammals. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, melatonin has been …

[HTML][HTML] Redox requirements for ubiquitin-like urmylation of Ahp1, a 2-Cys peroxiredoxin from yeast

C Brachmann, L Kaduhr, A Jüdes, KE Ravichandran… - Redox biology, 2020 - Elsevier
The yeast peroxiredoxin Ahp1, like related anti-oxidant enzymes in other species,
undergoes urmylation, a lysine-directed conjugation to ubiquitin-like modifier Urm1. Ahp1 …

A redox-active crosslinker reveals an essential and inhibitable oxidative folding network in the endoplasmic reticulum of malaria parasites

DW Cobb, HM Kudyba, A Villegas… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Malaria remains a major global health problem, creating a constant need for research to
identify druggable weaknesses in P. falciparum biology. As important components of cellular …

Protein disulfide isomerase PDI8 is indispensable for parasite growth and associated with secretory protein processing in Toxoplasma gondii

C Wang, P Sun, Y Jia, X Tang, X Liu, X Suo, H Peng - Mbio, 2024 - journals.asm.org
Protein disulfide isomerase, containing thioredoxin (Trx) domains, serves as a vital enzyme
responsible for oxidative protein folding (the formation, reduction, and isomerization of …

Piecing together how peroxiredoxins maintain genomic stability

JD West, TJ Roston, JB David, KM Allan, MA Loberg - Antioxidants, 2018 - mdpi.com
Peroxiredoxins, a highly conserved family of thiol oxidoreductases, play a key role in oxidant
detoxification by partnering with the thioredoxin system to protect against oxidative stress. In …

Identifying Interaction Partners of Yeast Protein Disulfide Isomerases Using a Small Thiol-Reactive Cross-Linker: Implications for Secretory Pathway Proteostasis

BJ Freije, WM Freije, TU Do, GE Adkins… - Chemical research in …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Protein disulfide isomerases (PDIs) function in forming the correct disulfide bonds in client
proteins, thereby aiding the folding of proteins that enter the secretory pathway. Recently …

Aromatic residues at the dimer− dimer interface in the peroxiredoxin Tsa1 facilitate decamer formation and biological function

MA Loberg, JE Hurtig, AH Graff, KM Allan… - Chemical research in …, 2019 - ACS Publications
To prevent the accumulation of reactive oxygen species and limit associated damage to
biological macromolecules, cells express a variety of oxidant-detoxifying enzymes, including …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping protein direct interactome of oxidoreductases with small molecular chemical cross-linkers in live cells

T Wu, ST Li, Y Ran, Y Lin, L Liu, X Zhang, L Zhou… - Redox Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Identifying direct substrates of enzymes has been a long-term challenge. Here, we present a
strategy using live cell chemical cross-linking and mass spectrometry to identify the putative …