期刊
FREE RADICAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
卷 80, 期 -, 页码 158-163出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2014.12.006
关键词
Thiyl radicals; Hydrogen atom transfer; Carbon-centered radicals; D-Amino acids; Glutathione; Free radicals
资金
- ETH Zurich
- NIH [P01AG12993]
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING [P01AG012993] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
Protein thiyl radicals are important intermediates generated in redox processes of thiols and disulfides. Thiyl radicals efficiently react with glutathione and ascorbate, and the common notion is that these reactions serve to eliminate thiyl radicals before they can enter potentially hazardous processes. However, over the past years increasing evidence has been provided for rather efficient intramolecular hydrogen transfer processes of thiyl radicals in proteins and peptides. Based on rate constants published for these processes, we have performed kinetic simulations of protein thiyl radical reactivity. Our simulations suggest that protein thiyl radicals enter intramolecular hydrogen transfer reactions to a significant extent even under physiologic conditions, i.e., in the presence of 30 mu M oxygen, 1 mM ascorbate, and 10 mM glutathione. At lower concentrations of ascorbate and glutathione, frequently observed when tissue is exposed to oxidative stress, the extent of irreversible protein thiyl radical-dependent protein modification increases. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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