1. Hydrogen peroxide signaling via its transformation to a stereospecific alkyl hydroperoxide that escapes reductive inactivation
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Anita Ayer, Giang T H Nguyen, Christopher P. Stanley, Naomi McKinnon, Ragul Rajivan, Roland Stocker, Antonella Roveri, Sebastian Guttzeit, William A. Donald, Kathryn Wolhuter, Philip Eaton, Raphael F Queiroz, Fulvio Ursini, Christine C. Winterbourn, and Stephanie M Y Kong
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Male ,Stereochemistry ,Science ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Oxidative phosphorylation ,Peroxiredoxin 2 ,Article ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,Mice ,Stress signalling ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Animals ,Indoleamine-Pyrrole 2,3,-Dioxygenase ,Hydrogen peroxide ,tryptophan hydroperoxide ,signaling ,Cyclic GMP-Dependent Protein Kinase Type I ,Homeodomain Proteins ,Inflammation ,chemistry.chemical_classification ,Reactive oxygen species ,Multidisciplinary ,biology ,Small molecules ,Tryptophan ,Endothelial Cells ,Peroxiredoxins ,General Chemistry ,Glutathione ,Mice, Inbred C57BL ,Peroxidases ,chemistry ,biology.protein ,Epimer ,Oxidation-Reduction ,cGMP-dependent protein kinase ,Signal Transduction ,Chemical modification ,Peroxidase - Abstract
During systemic inflammation, indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase 1 (IDO1) becomes expressed in endothelial cells where it uses hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) to oxidize L-tryptophan to the tricyclic hydroperoxide, cis-WOOH, that then relaxes arteries via oxidation of protein kinase G 1α. Here we show that arterial glutathione peroxidases and peroxiredoxins that rapidly eliminate H2O2, have little impact on relaxation of IDO1-expressing arteries, and that purified IDO1 forms cis-WOOH in the presence of peroxiredoxin 2. cis-WOOH oxidizes protein thiols in a selective and stereospecific manner. Compared with its epimer trans-WOOH and H2O2, cis-WOOH reacts slower with the major arterial forms of glutathione peroxidases and peroxiredoxins while it reacts more readily with its target, protein kinase G 1α. Our results indicate a paradigm of redox signaling by H2O2 via its enzymatic conversion to an amino acid-derived hydroperoxide that ‘escapes’ effective reductive inactivation to engage in selective oxidative activation of key target proteins., A major question in redox signaling is how H2O2 oxidizes target protein thiols in the presence of glutathione peroxidases and peroxiredoxins. We reveal signaling by H2O2 via its enzymatic conversion to an alkyl hydroperoxide that stereo-specifically escapes peroxidases and oxidizes target proteins.
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- 2021