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NATURE CHEMICAL BIOLOGY
Volume 2, Issue 4, Pages 185-194Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nchembio779
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM59636] Funding Source: Medline
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The presence of sulfur in cofactors has been appreciated for over a century, but the trafficking and delivery of sulfur to cofactors and nucleosides is still not fully understood. In the last decade, great strides have been made toward understanding those processes and the enzymes that conduct them, including cysteine desulfurases and rhodanese homology domain proteins. The persulfide group (R-S-SH) predominantly serves as the sulfur donor, and sulfur incorporation pathways share enzymes to a remarkable degree. Mechanisms for the use of persulfide groups are illustrated with the relatively simple case of 4-thiourdine generation, and further possibilities are illuminated by the 2-thiouridine and cofactor biosynthetic systems. The rationale and ramifications of sharing enzymes between sulfur incorporation pathways are discussed, including implications for interpreting genetic or genomic data that indicate a role for a sulfur transfer protein in a particular biological process.
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