Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
Volume 23, Issue 24, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms232415849
Keywords
glutathionylation; nitrosylation; redox; mitochondria; neurodegeneration; Alzheimer's; Parkinson's; amyotrophiclateralsclerosis; Friedreich's ataxia
Funding
- European Union [956185]
- German Research Foundation [Wi 945/17-1, 398410809, Wi 945/18-1, 384170921, Wi 945/19-1, 417989143, KY96.1-2, 269018619, SFB1451, 431549029-A01, GRK1960, 233886668]
- Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne [C18]
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Redox post-translational modifications, such as S-glutathionylation and S-nitrosylation, play crucial roles in regulating protein function, localization, activity, and structure. These modifications are controlled by fluctuations in reactive oxygen and nitrogen species and have significant impacts on mitochondrial processes, including bioenergetics, morphology, metabolism, and apoptosis. Dysregulation of S-glutathionylation and S-nitrosylation is associated with neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and Friedreich's ataxia.
Redox post-translational modifications are derived from fluctuations in the redox potential and modulate protein function, localization, activity and structure. Amongst the oxidative reversible modifications, the S-glutathionylation of proteins was the first to be characterized as a post-translational modification, which primarily protects proteins from irreversible oxidation. However, a growing body of evidence suggests that S-glutathionylation plays a key role in core cell processes, particularly in mitochondria, which are the main source of reactive oxygen species. S-nitrosylation, another post-translational modification, was identified >150 years ago, but it was re-introduced as a prototype cell-signaling mechanism only recently, one that tightly regulates core processes within the cell's sub-compartments, especially in mitochondria. S-glutathionylation and S-nitrosylation are modulated by fluctuations in reactive oxygen and nitrogen species and, in turn, orchestrate mitochondrial bioenergetics machinery, morphology, nutrients metabolism and apoptosis. In many neurodegenerative disorders, mitochondria dysfunction and oxidative/nitrosative stresses trigger or exacerbate their pathologies. Despite the substantial amount of research for most of these disorders, there are no successful treatments, while antioxidant supplementation failed in the majority of clinical trials. Herein, we discuss how S-glutathionylation and S-nitrosylation interfere in mitochondrial homeostasis and how the deregulation of these modifications is associated with Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Friedreich's ataxia.
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