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ARCHIVES OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS
Volume 463, Issue 2, Pages 188-200Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2007.02.017
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zinc; metallothionein; redox; zinc and redox signaling; zinc/thiolate
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM 065388] Funding Source: Medline
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Free zinc ions are potent effectors of proteins. Their tightly controlled fluctuations (zinc signals) in the picomolar range of concentrations modulate cellular signaling pathways. Sulfur (cysteine) donors generate redox-active coordination environments in proteins for the redox-inert zinc ion and make it possible for redox signals to induce zinc signals. Amplitudes of zinc signals are determined by the cellular zinc buffering capacity, which itself is redox-sensitive. In part by interfering with zinc and redox buffering, reactive species, drugs, toxins, and metal ions can elicit zinc signals that initiate physiological and pathobiochemical changes or lead to cellular injury when free zinc ions are sustained at higher concentrations. These interactions establish redox-inert zinc as an important factor in redox signaling. At the center of zinc/redox signaling are the zinc/thiolate clusters of metallothionein. They can transduce zinc and redox signals and thereby attenuate or amplify these signals. (C) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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