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ReviewAntioxidants & redox signaling2015

The Redox Code.

Dean P Jones, Helmut Sies

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Review in Antioxidants & redox signaling, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 311 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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311citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

311 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  13. Redox Molecules in Aging and Neurodegenerative Disorders.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  17. Update: Is exercise-induced oxidative stress a friend or foe?Sports medicine and health science · 2026
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  20. Proteoforms as the true units of physiological function.European journal of applied physiology · 2026
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251 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Dean P Jones1 Department of Medicine, Emory University , Atlanta, Georgia .
Helmut Sies2 Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology I, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf, Germany .

Funding

Pilot Project ProgramP30ES019776 · NIEHS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI Carmen Joseph Marsit · 2013 to 2026
$22.6M
Graduate and Postdoctoral Training in ToxicologyT32ES012870 · NIEHS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI Carmen Joseph Marsit · 2004 to 2026
$9.1M
Metabolomics of subclinical and clinical cardiovascular diseaseP20HL113451 · NHLBI · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI JONES, DEAN PAUL · 2012 to 2016
$4.3M
Thioredoxin-2 protection against mitochondrial oxidative toxicityR01ES009047 · NIEHS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI JONES, DEAN PAUL · 1998 to 2013
$3.9M
A metabolomic model of aging in the common marmosetR01AG038746 · NIA · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI JONES, DEAN PAUL, PROMISLOW, DANIEL EDWARD · 2010 to 2014
$2.5M
Cytoplasmic-nuclear redox signaling: Disruption by dietary cadmium levelsR01ES023485 · NIEHS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI GO KANG, YOUNG-MI, JONES, DEAN PAUL · 2014 to 2018
$1.8M
NHLBI NIH HHS HL113451NHLBI NIH HHS P20 HL113451NIA NIH HHS AG038746NIEHS NIH HHS ES009047NIEHS NIH HHS ES019776NIEHS NIH HHS ES023485NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES019776NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES009047NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES023485NIEHS NIH HHS T32 ES012870
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

significanceThe redox code is a set of principles that defines the positioning of the nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD, NADP) and thiol/disulfide and other redox systems as well as the thiol redox proteome in space and time in biological systems. The code is richly elaborated in an oxygen-dependent life, where activation/deactivation cycles involving O₂ and H₂O₂ contribute to spatiotemporal organization for differentiation, development, and adaptation to the environment. Disruption of this organizational structure during oxidative stress represents a fundamental mechanism in system failure and disease. RECENT ADVANCES: Methodology in assessing components of the redox code under physiological conditions has progressed, permitting insight into spatiotemporal organization and allowing for identification of redox partners in redox proteomics and redox metabolomics. CRITICAL ISSUES: Complexity of redox networks and redox regulation is being revealed step by step, yet much still needs to be learned. FUTURE DIRECTIONS: Detailed knowledge of the molecular patterns generated from the principles of the redox code under defined physiological or pathological conditions in cells and organs will contribute to understanding the redox component in health and disease. Ultimately, there will be a scientific basis to a modern redox medicine.

Indexed as

Oxidation-ReductionAnimalsDisulfidesHumansHydrogen PeroxideMetabolomicsNADOxygenProteomeDisulfidesHydrogen PeroxideNADOxygenProteome

Identifiers

PMID25891126
PMCPMC4580308

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