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ArticleFree radical biology & medicine2012

Protein thiyl radical mediates S-glutathionylation of complex I.

Patrick T Kang, Liwen Zhang, Chwen-Lih Chen, Jingfeng Chen, Kari B Green, Yeong-Renn Chen

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Article in Free radical biology & medicine, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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35 citing papers in PubMed, 61 citations in OpenAlex.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Patrick T KangDepartment of Integrative Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, OH 44272, USA.
Liwen Zhang
Chwen-Lih Chen
Jingfeng Chen
Kari B Green
Yeong-Renn Chen
Northeast Ohio Medical University · USThe Ohio State University · US

Funding

Myocardial Injury Mitochondria/ Oxygen Free Radical(s)R01HL083237 · NHLBI · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI CHEN, YEONG-RENN · 2006 to 2017
$3.8M
Acquisition of a high-throughput high mass accuracy MS for chromatin researchS10RR023647 · NCRR · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI FREITAS, MICHAEL A · 2007 to 2007
$500k
NCRR NIH HHS S10 RR023647NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL083237
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Complex I is a critical site of O(2)(•-) production and the major host of reactive protein thiols in mitochondria. In response to oxidative stress, complex I protein thiols at the 51- and 75-kDa subunits are reversibly S-glutathionylated. The mechanism of complex I S-glutathionylation is mainly obtained from insight into GSSG-mediated thiol-disulfide exchange, which would require a dramatic decline in the GSH/GSSG ratio. Intrinsic complex I S-glutathionylation can be detected in the rat heart at a relatively high GSH/GSSG ratio (J. Chen et al., J. Biol. Chem. 285:3168-3180, 2010). Thus, we hypothesized that reactive thiyl radical is more likely to mediate protein S-glutathionylation of complex I. Here we employed immuno-spin trapping and tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS) to test the hypothesis in the 75-kDa subunit from S-glutathionylated complex I. Under the conditions of O(2)(•-) production in the presence of GSH, we detected complex I S-glutathionylation at Cys-226, Cys-367, and Cys-727 of the 75-kDa subunit. Addition of a radical trap, 5,5-dimethyl-1-pyrroline N-oxide (DMPO), significantly decreased complex I S-glutathionylation and subsequently increased the protein radical adduct of complex I-DMPO as detected by immunoblotting using an anti-DMPO antibody. LC/MS/MS analysis indicated that Cys-226, Cys-554, and Cys-727 were involved in DMPO binding, confirming that formation of the complex I thiyl radical mediates S-glutathionylation. LC/MS/MS analysis also showed that Cys-554 and Cys-727 were S-sulfonated under conditions of O(2)(•-) generation in the absence of DMPO. In myocytes (HL-1 cell line) treated with menadione to trigger mitochondrial O(2)(•-) generation, complex I protein radical and S-glutathionylation were increased. Thus mediation of complex I S-glutathionylation by the protein thiyl radical provides a unique pathway for the redox regulation of mitochondrial function.

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Oxidative StressAmino Acid MotifsAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsBinding SitesCattleCell LineCyclic N-OxidesCysteineElectron Transport Complex IFree RadicalsFree Radical ScavengersGlutathioneMiceMitochondria, HeartModels, Molecular5,5-dimethyl-1-pyrroline-1-oxideCyclic N-OxidesCysteinediphenyleneiodoniumElectron Transport Complex IFree RadicalsFree Radical ScavengersGlutathioneOnium CompoundsPeptide FragmentsRotenoneSuperoxides

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PMID22634394
PMCPMC3418477
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