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ArticleThe EMBO journal2023

Thiol reductive stress activates the hypoxia response pathway.

Ravi, Ajay Kumar, Shalmoli Bhattacharyya, Jogender Singh

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Article in The EMBO journal, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing papers in PubMed
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

RaviDepartment of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali, India.ORCID 0000-0001-6481-7683
Ajay KumarDepartment of Biophysics, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.ORCID 0000-0003-3412-1823
Shalmoli BhattacharyyaDepartment of Biophysics, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.ORCID 0000-0003-4189-4453
Jogender SinghDepartment of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali, India.ORCID 0000-0002-7947-0405
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali · INPost Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research · IN

Funding

Enhancing and expanding the CGC Strain CollectionP40OD010440 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI Aric L Daul, Ann E. Rougvie · 2012 to 2026
$7.5M
NIH HHS P40 OD010440ODCDC CDC HHS P40 OD010440
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Owing to their capability to disrupt the oxidative protein folding environment in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), thiol antioxidants, such as dithiothreitol (DTT), are used as ER-specific stressors. We recently showed that thiol antioxidants modulate the methionine-homocysteine cycle by upregulating an S-adenosylmethionine-dependent methyltransferase, rips-1, in Caenorhabditis elegans. However, the changes in cellular physiology induced by thiol stress that modulate the methionine-homocysteine cycle remain uncharacterized. Here, using forward genetic screens in C. elegans, we discover that thiol stress enhances rips-1 expression via the hypoxia response pathway. We demonstrate that thiol stress activates the hypoxia response pathway. The activation of the hypoxia response pathway by thiol stress is conserved in human cells. The hypoxia response pathway enhances thiol toxicity via rips-1 expression and confers protection against thiol toxicity via rips-1-independent mechanisms. Finally, we show that DTT might activate the hypoxia response pathway by producing hydrogen sulfide. Our studies reveal an intriguing interaction between thiol-mediated reductive stress and the hypoxia response pathway and challenge the current model that thiol antioxidant DTT disrupts only the ER milieu in the cell.

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Caenorhabditis elegansEndoplasmic ReticulumAnimalsAntioxidantsEndoplasmic Reticulum StressHomocysteineHumansHypoxiaMethionineAntioxidantsHomocysteineMethionineC. elegansendoplasmic reticulumhif-1hypoxiareductive stress

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PMID37902464
PMCPMC10646554
OpenAlexW4387257775

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