Catalysis of Oxidative Protein Folding by Small-Molecule Diselenides†

Biochemistry ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 47 (27) ◽  
pp. 6985-6987 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joris Beld ◽  
Kenneth J. Woycechowsky ◽  
Donald Hilvert
2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (16) ◽  
pp. 3336-3339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Post Sai Reddy ◽  
Norman Metanis

Small molecule diselenides were prepared and found to enhance thein vitrooxidative folding of disulfide-rich protein.


2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joris Beld ◽  
Kenneth J. Woycechowsky ◽  
Donald Hilvert

Molecules ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 879
Author(s):  
Shunsuke Okada ◽  
Motonori Matsusaki ◽  
Masaki Okumura ◽  
Takahiro Muraoka

Oxidative protein folding is a biological process to obtain a native conformation of a protein through disulfide-bond formation between cysteine residues. In a cell, disulfide-catalysts such as protein disulfide isomerase promote the oxidative protein folding. Inspired by the active sites of the disulfide-catalysts, synthetic redox-active thiol compounds have been developed, which have shown significant promotion of the folding processes. In our previous study, coupling effects of a thiol group and guanidyl unit on the folding promotion were reported. Herein, we investigated the influences of a spacer between the thiol group and guanidyl unit. A conjugate between thiol and guanidyl units with a diethylene glycol spacer (GdnDEG-SH) showed lower folding promotion effect compared to the thiol–guanidyl conjugate without the spacer (GdnSH). Lower acidity and a more reductive property of the thiol group of GdnDEG-SH compared to those of GdnSH likely resulted in the reduced efficiency of the folding promotion. Thus, the spacer between the thiol and guanidyl groups is critical for the promotion of oxidative protein folding.


2019 ◽  
Vol 294 (49) ◽  
pp. 18820-18835 ◽  
Author(s):  
Motonori Matsusaki ◽  
Aya Okuda ◽  
Koichi Matsuo ◽  
Kunihiko Gekko ◽  
Taro Masuda ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Alexandra Gennaris ◽  
Jean-François Collet

2020 ◽  
Vol 295 (36) ◽  
pp. 12772-12785 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shingo Kanemura ◽  
Elza Firdiani Sofia ◽  
Naoya Hirai ◽  
Masaki Okumura ◽  
Hiroshi Kadokura ◽  
...  

Oxidative protein folding occurs primarily in the mammalian endoplasmic reticulum, enabled by a diverse network comprising more than 20 members of the protein disulfide isomerase (PDI) family and more than five PDI oxidases. Although the canonical disulfide bond formation pathway involving Ero1α and PDI has been well-studied so far, the physiological roles of the newly identified PDI oxidases, glutathione peroxidase-7 (GPx7) and -8 (GPx8), are only poorly understood. We here demonstrated that human GPx7 has much higher reactivity with H2O2 and hence greater PDI oxidation activity than human GPx8. The high reactivity of GPx7 is due to the presence of a catalytic tetrad at the redox-active site, which stabilizes the sulfenylated species generated upon the reaction with H2O2. Although it was previously postulated that GPx7 catalysis involved a highly reactive peroxidatic cysteine that can be sulfenylated by H2O2, we revealed that a resolving cysteine instead regulates the PDI oxidation activity of GPx7. We also determined that GPx7 formed complexes preferentially with PDI and P5 in H2O2-treated cells. Altogether, these results suggest that human GPx7 functions as an H2O2-dependent PDI oxidase in cells, whereas PDI oxidation may not be the central physiological role of human GPx8.


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