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Biochimica et Biophysica Acta

Review

Thiol-based redox switches☆

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Bastian Groitl a, Ursula Jakob a,b,⁎

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Article history: Received 13 January 2014 Received in revised form 4 March 2014 Accepted 11 March 2014 Available online xxxx

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Keywords: Oxidative stress Redox regulation Disulﬁde bond Sulfenic acid

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Regulation of protein function through thiol-based redox switches plays an important role in the response and adaptation to local and global changes in the cellular levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Redox regulation is used by ﬁrst responder proteins, such as ROS-speciﬁc transcriptional regulators, chaperones or metabolic enzymes to protect cells against mounting levels of oxidants, repair the damage and restore redox homeostasis. Redox regulation of phosphatases and kinases is used to control the activity of select eukaryotic signaling pathways, making reactive oxygen species important second messengers that regulate growth, development and differentiation. In this review we will compare different types of reversible protein thiol modiﬁcations, elaborate on their structural and functional consequences and discuss their role in oxidative stress response and ROS adaptation. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Thiol-Based Redox Processes. © 2014 Published by Elsevier B.V.

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1. Reactive oxygen species and oxidative stress response

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Life in an aerobic environment inevitably leads to the formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) [1], including hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), superoxide (O− 2 ) and hypochlorous acid (HOCl). These oxidants are endogenously generated as metabolic by-products from processes such as oxidative phosphorylation, or are directly produced by enzymes like NADPH oxidases (i.e., Nox) [2]. Whereas low concentrations of ROS play important roles in cell signaling processes, large amounts of ROS cause irreversible modiﬁcation and damage to virtually every cellular macromolecule, including lipids, DNA and proteins [3–5]. A number of conserved enzymatic and non-enzymatic systems are present in proand eukaryotic organisms that detoxify excess ROS, prevent and repair oxidative damage and maintain redox homeostasis. However, when biological systems are no longer able to deal with ROS, they experience a stress situation commonly known as oxidative stress, which becomes quickly lethal if it is let to run its course. To protect themselves against oxidative damage, organisms have developed a number of different response systems, whose main function is to sense and rapidly respond to changing levels of speciﬁc oxidants. Most of the responses involve transcriptional changes, mediated by oxidative modiﬁcation of speciﬁc transcription factors [6]. The transcriptional activator OxyR, for instance, directly senses increased peroxide levels in Escherichia coli [7]. Upon its activation, OxyR induces the expression of catalase and peroxiredoxin to detoxify hydrogen peroxide

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Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA

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☆ This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Thiol-Based Redox Processes. ⁎ Corresponding author at: 830 N-University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048, USA. Tel.: +1 734 615 1286. E-mail address: [emailprotected] (U. Jakob).

and organic peroxides, and also induces the expression of thioredoxin and glutaredoxin in order to reduce oxidative thiol modiﬁcations and restore redox homeostasis [8]. In yeast, the transcriptional regulator Yap1p takes over this function, sensing the presence of reactive oxygen species and responding to them with the upregulation of antioxidant genes [9]. In addition to these transcriptional changes, organisms also respond to increased oxidant levels with the instantaneous activation of stress-speciﬁc chaperones, which protect proteins against oxidative protein aggregation [10,11]. ROS-mediated change in the function of select metabolic enzymes further serves to redirect metabolic pathways from energy production towards NADPH generation [12]. In concert, these responses provide considerable protection against oxidative damage.

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2. Cysteine oxidation — a sensitive and (mostly) reversible way to respond to oxidants

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One of the most commonly employed ways to sense alterations in cellular oxidant levels or the redox environment is through the reversible modiﬁcation of thiol-containing cysteine side chains in redoxsensitive proteins [6,13–16]. While most cysteines have pKa values between 8 and 9 and are therefore fully protonated and largely nonreactive under physiological pH conditions, oxidation-sensitive thiols are often (but not always) characterized by much lower pKa values [17]. These low pKa-values result in the deprotonation of these cysteines under physiological pH conditions. The resulting thiolate anions exhibit much higher reactivity than their protonated thiol counterparts [18]. Reactivity among different thiolate anions also depends on the local protein environment, and currently there is no accurate way to predict thiolate anion reactivity [19]. Upon exposure to oxidants, thiolate

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Select proteins involved in photosynthetic processes have long been known to be inactivated by disulﬁde bond formation under dark conditions, and activated upon disulﬁde bond reduction once the organism is photosynthetically active and starts producing NADPH [16,38,39]. Moreover, numerous prior studies have reported thiol-containing proteins, which loose their activity during the puriﬁcation in the absence of reducing agents. Many of these results were historically dismissed as in vitro artifacts, explained by the random and non-speciﬁc disulﬁde bond formation, which alters the structure and hence the function of the proteins. What was more difﬁcult to dismiss as an artifact was the discovery of cytosolic proteins that gain activity when oxidized. One of the ﬁrst examples of this was OxyR, the peroxide sensitive transcription

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nucleophilic attack at the mixed disulﬁde bond, forming an intramolecular disulﬁde bond in TrxA thereby fully reducing the client protein [31]. Reversibility of the thioredoxin system is achieved by thioredoxin reductase (TrxB), which uses the reductive power of NADPH to reduce the disulﬁde bond in TrxA [28,32]. Glutaredoxin (Grx) is different from Trx in that it preferentially attacks S-glutathionylated proteins, forming a mixed disulﬁde with GSH in this process [29,33]. A second molecule of GSH attacks this intermolecular disulﬁde bond, reducing Grx and releasing oxidized GSSG, which in turn is reduced by the NADPH-dependent glutathione reductase (GR) [28,34]. Despite Grx's preference for S-glutathionylated proteins and Trx's preference for sulfenic acids, in vivo studies revealed that the two systems can replace each other in the cell [35–37]. This redundancy emphasizes their important roles in maintaining cellular redox homeostasis and preventing higher and typically irreversible thiol modiﬁcations.

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anions rapidly form sulfenic acids, which are important intermediates in the thiol oxidation process (Fig. 1) [20,21]. Due to their high reactivity towards nearby thiol groups, sulfenic acids are generally very shortlived [22]. So far, only few redox-regulated proteins, such as the FADcontaining NADH peroxidase from Streptococcus faecalis and matrix metalloproteinase MMP-7 [23,24] have been shown to use this fully reversible oxidative modiﬁcation to control their functional activity [20, 25]. Most sulfenic acids, however, rapidly react with other protein thiols to form intra- or intermolecular disulﬁde bonds, interact with nonprotein thiols such as the small redox compound glutathione (GSH) or cysteine to form mixed disulﬁde bonds (i.e., S-glutathionylation, Scysteinylation), or react with nearby amino groups to form cyclic sulfenamides (Fig. 1). Further oxidation of sulfenic acid or sulfenamides leads to sulﬁnic acid and sulfonic formation, which are typically irreversible oxidation processes. One exception is the formation of sulﬁnic acid at the active site cysteine of select eukaryotic peroxiredoxins [26]. This overoxidation product, which forms part of a functional redox switch, is reduced by sulﬁredoxin, a specialized ATP-dependent sulﬁnic acid reductase [27]. Most oxidative thiol modiﬁcations are reduced by the thioredoxin or glutaredoxin systems [28,29]. At the core of these systems are small, highly conserved oxidoreductases, thioredoxin (e.g., TrxA) and glutaredoxin (e.g., Grx1, Grx3), which use direct thiol–disulﬁde reactions to reduce oxidized protein thiols. Both oxidoreductases have the characteristic thioredoxin fold, harboring a conserved Cys-X-Y-Cys motif that facilitates the reduction of client proteins [30]. In the initial step, the ﬁrst Cys of the thioredoxin twin cysteine motif attacks the oxidized thiol of the client protein. In the case of TrxA, this nucleophilic attack leads to the formation of a mixed disulﬁde bond between TrxA and the client proteins. To resolve this intermolecular disulﬁde bond and fully reduce the client protein, the second cysteine in TrxA launches another

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Fig. 1. Oxidative thiol modiﬁcations commonly found in redox-regulated proteins. Upon reaction with peroxide (H2O2) or hypochlorous acid (HOCl), redox-sensitive thiol groups (RSH) rapidly form sulfenic acids (RSOH). These sulfenates are highly reactive and tend to quickly react with nearby cysteine thiols to form inter- or intramolecular disulﬁde bonds (RSSR). Alternatively, they form mixed disulﬁdes with the small tripeptide glutathione (GSH) (RSSG), or undergo cyclic sulfenamide formation (RSNHR). These oxidative thiol modiﬁcations are fully reversible, and reduction (RED) is catalyzed by members of the glutaredoxin (Grx) or thioredoxin (Trx) system. Further oxidation of sulfenic acid to sulﬁnic acid (RSO2H), sulﬁnamide (RSONHR) or sulfonic acid (RSO3H) is irreversible. One exception is the active site sulﬁnic acid in peroxiredoxin, whose reduction is mediated by the highly specialized ATP-dependent sulﬁredoxin Srx1.

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5.1. Activation of the oxidative stress speciﬁc chaperone Hsp33

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Heat shock protein 33 (Hsp33) is a highly conserved cytosolic chaperone, which is present in a large number of different gram positive and negative bacteria as well as in select eukaryotes, including the parasites

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5.1.1. The activation mechanism of Hsp33 How is activation of the chaperone Hsp33 achieved under conditions that cause the oxidative unfolding and aggregation of hundreds of different proteins, including several important chaperones? The answer lies in Hsp33's unique structural organization, the presence of a highly reactive cysteine-containing redox switch, and the fact that Hsp33 becomes rapidly activated when it gets oxidatively unfolded. Under nonstress conditions, Hsp33 is compactly folded and chaperone inactive (Fig. 2). The redox switch resides in Hsp33's C-terminus. It consists of four cysteines, tetrahedrally arranged in a C-X-C-Xn-C-X-X-C motif. These four cysteines coordinate zinc with very high afﬁnity (Kd of 2.5 × 10−17 at 25 °C, pH 7.5) [68]. This zinc coordination appears to lower the pKa of Hsp33's cysteines, as indicated by the observation that all four cysteines are present in their highly reactive thiolate anion state. The N- and C-terminal domains of Hsp33 are connected by a ﬂexible linker region, which appears to be fully folded when Hsp33 is reduced and zinc-coordinated [69,70]. Exposure of Hsp33 to oxidizing conditions leads to the formation of two intramolecular disulﬁde bonds, connecting the next neighbor cysteines [43,71]. This oxidation leads to the release of zinc, which destabilizes the zinc center and causes the unfolding of the adjacent linker region [63,72]. Two partially unfolded monomers associate and form the chaperone active dimer (Fig. 2) [73]. Disulﬁde bond formation, a reaction typically considered to be stabilizing and structure forming, converts Hsp33 into a natively unfolded protein [72,74]. Once partially unfolded, Hsp33 appears to expose binding sites responsible for client binding both in the linker region and the adjacent N-terminus [74,75]. When reducing conditions are restored, the disulﬁde bonds are reduced and zinc is re-coordinated [76]. However, to effectively release the client proteins from Hsp33 and return Hsp33 to the chaperone-inactive state, cellular ATP-levels need to be restored as well. Increasing cellular ATP concentrations fuel the ATP-dependent DnaK-chaperone system, which triggers the release of client proteins from Hsp33 and supports their refolding to the native state [74,76]. The posttranslational activation mechanism of Hsp33 is a new paradigm in chaperone function [77]. Over the past few years, several other chaperones have been discovered which use their own stress-induced protein unfolding as a mechanism to activate their chaperone function. One of them is the pH-activated E. coli chaperone HdeA, which rapidly loses structure upon low pH and prevents other chaperones against low pH-mediated aggregation [78–80]. The other ones are members of the small heat shock protein family, which are activated by heatinduced structural rearrangements [81,82]. By using these activation mechanisms, which do not require time-consuming transcription and translation processes, these specialized chaperones provide immediate

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Upon exposure to fast acting oxidants such as HOCl (i.e., bleach), thiolate anions rapidly form sulfenyl chlorides, which subsequently hydrolyze to sulfenic acids (k = 106–107 M−1 s−1) (Fig. 1) [50,51]. This rapid reaction rate likely explains the reversible thiol modiﬁcations that many proteins undergo in response to bleach [52]. Hydrogen peroxide, however, although much more oxidizing than HOCl [53], shows ~ 6 order of magnitude slower reaction rates with most known thiols (k = 5–15 M−1 s− 1) [54], including many proteins that have been shown to be oxidized by peroxide in vivo. This ﬁnding raised the very intriguing question of how peroxide can actually cause the extensive cellular protein thiol oxidation that has been observed in a variety of different model systems [54,55]. One possible solution to this conundrum came with the discovery that peroxide-mediated oxidation (and activation) of Yap1p, the peroxide-sensitive transcription factor in yeast, is not directly caused by peroxide, but is indirectly mediated by the oxidized form of a small glutathione peroxidase (Gpx/Orp1) [56]. More recently, peroxiredoxins, members of a second family of thiol peroxidases, have also been shown to be involved in the oxidative activation of select thiol-containing proteins [57]. In both peroxidase families, the active site cysteine of thiol peroxidases shows exquisitely high reactivity with peroxide (k = 105–108 M−1 s−1 [19,58]), and rapidly undergoes sulfenic acid formation as part of its peroxide detoxiﬁcation cycle [59]. A cationic environment, which is thought to stabilize the transition state, appears to contribute to this highly unusual reaction rate [60]. Subsequent interaction of this sulfenic acid with the thiol group of other proteins, such as Yap1p causes ﬁrst the formation of an intermolecular disulﬁde bond, and subsequently the oxidation of the client protein and the concomitant reduction of the thiol peroxidase [61]. While this discovery explains how non-reactive cysteines can become reversibly oxidized upon peroxide treatment in vivo, it is still unclear how many proteins serve as substrates for thiol peroxidase-mediated oxidation. The enormous redundancy of thiol peroxidases in even very simple organisms makes answering this important question challenging.

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Leishmania and Trypanosoma, select species of green and red algae and several higher plant species [10]. In bacteria, Hsp33 has been shown to effectively protect cytosolic proteins against oxidative protein aggregation, elicited by reactive chlorine species, such as HOCl, or by a combination of H2O2 and elevated temperatures [10,11,62,63]. Whereas the bacteria encounter HOCl, the active ingredient of household bleach, during the innate immune response as well as upon colonization of barrier epithelia in the lung and gut [64], peroxidative heat stress is elicited during inﬂammation [65]. Presence of Hsp33 signiﬁcantly increases bacterial resistance towards both of these stress conditions. Hsp33 is an ATP-independent chaperone, which is posttranslationally activated speciﬁcally by these severe oxidative stress conditions to prevent proteins from aggregation [11,62]. This is crucial for bacterial survival, since under these stress conditions, ATP-dependent bacterial chaperones, such as the DnaK or GroEL-system, which are typically employed to maintain proteostasis under stress conditions, are no longer able to prevent protein aggregation [11]. This is due to the oxidative stress-mediated decrease in cellular ATP levels, which leaves these proteins devoid of their energy source, as well as due to direct oxidative stress-mediated inactivation of some of these chaperones [66,67].

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factor in E. coli. Inactive when reduced, OxyR quickly induced antioxidant gene expression when its conserved cysteine(s) were oxidized by peroxide [7]. Our discovery that a completely unrelated bacterial protein, the chaperone Hsp33, uses a similar type of regulation but with a completely different mechanism [10] provided crucial additional evidence in support of the fact that thiol oxidation of cytosolic proteins is indeed physiologically signiﬁcant, and that transient oxidation potentially affects many thiol-containing proteins and pathways [40]. With the development of quantitative in vivo thiol trapping methods [41], we now know of many hundreds of different bacterial and eukaryotic proteins, including kinases, phosphatases, transcription factors, and metabolic enzymes that use reversible thiol modiﬁcations to rapidly adjust their protein activity to the redox environment of the cell [42–47]. For many of these proteins, the nature of their oxidative thiol modiﬁcations is still unknown. While global methods are now available to detect sulfenic acids in proteins [48], cysteines involved in regulatory disulﬁde bonds still have to be identiﬁed by a tedious disulﬁde mapping process, and sulfenamides are often simply identiﬁed by exclusion [49]. However, given the increasing interest in the area of redox regulation, it will only be a matter of time before tools will become available to systematically scrutinize these reversible thiol modiﬁcations.

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5.2.1. Active site cysteines in inteins — attractive targets for redox regulation Inteins are “single turnover enzymes”, which catalyze the splicing reaction without additional factors or energy. Class 1 inteins, which constitute over 90% of all known intervening proteins, use a four-step reaction mechanism to rearrange, excise and re-ligate the host (Fig. 3A) [88]. Two active site cysteines (sometimes serines) at the extein–intein boundaries are essential for catalysis; Cys1, found at position 1 of the intein and Cys + 1, located at position 1 of the C-terminal extein. In the ﬁrst step (N-S-Acyl shift), a thioester bond is formed between Cys1 and the adjacent peptide carbonyl group that links N-extein and N-intein fragments. In the second step, a trans-thioesteriﬁcation reaction occurs in which the ester is transferred onto the sulfur of Cys + 1, causing the formation of a new thioester between the N-extein's carbonyl and the C-extein's thiol group. These steps are followed by an aminosuccinimide formation and the formation of a new peptide bond between the two extein domains [87]. Class 2 and 3 inteins, which lack the ﬁrst nucleophile, use variations of this reaction theme [87,92]. Given that the nucleophilic cysteines are most often the key players in the intein-mediated splicing process, regulating their redox status appears to be an ideal mechanism to control intein activity. To test this idea, an intein precursor variant was constructed in which the three most C-terminal N-extein residues directly upstream of the active site Cys1 were replaced to generate the oxidoreductase motif of thioredoxin (i.e., Cys-Pro-Gly-Cys1) [93]. Whereas this intein variant showed no substantially altered self-splicing activity when expressed in wild-type E. coli, its activity was drastically lowered upon expression in the E. coli origami mutant strain. This mutant strain lacks both the thioredoxin and glutaredoxin systems and therefore accumulates proteins with non-native disulﬁde bonds in the cytosol [94]. Importantly, addition of non-nucleophilic reducing agents to the media immediately re-initiated intein splicing, supporting the conclusion that disulﬁde bond formation reversibly repressed intein's activity and that this introduced new disulﬁde bond is redox sensitive [93]. This ﬁnding raised the intriguing question whether any naturally occurring inteins might be

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essential DNA repair and replication enzymes but some metabolic enzymes, proteases and the V-ATPase also contain inteins [91]. Inteins have no known beneﬁt for the host, but these genes have been maintained in genomes over millions of years of evolution as a piece of selﬁsh DNA [88]. Since excision of inteins leads to the activation of the host protein, it is plausible that inteins serve a regulatory role, controlling the activity of these essential proteins [87].

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protection against rapidly acting protein unfolding stress conditions, such as HOCl treatment or acid stress [77]. Numerous questions still remain in regard to the oxidative activation process of Hsp33 and other proteins with cysteine-containing zinc centers. For instance, how does a tetrahedral cluster of cysteines manage to form disulﬁde bonds exclusively between the next neighbor cysteines, given that all four cysteines are at an equal distance to each other? How does disulﬁde bond formation in the far C-terminus of a protein cause unfolding of the protein's N-terminal regions? Are all cysteine coordinating zinc clusters equally redox sensitive? Studies of the pKa values and reactivities of each of the individual cysteine thiols in Hsp33's zinc binding cluster, and comparison with other zinc binding proteins may help address some of these questions. A fusion protein consisting of Hsp33's N-terminus/linker region and the zinc-binding domain of protein kinase C revealed that Hsp33's chaperone function can be used as read-out for the redox sensitivity of PKC's zinc centers [83] and potentially other zinc centers. This should help shed light into the mechanism(s) by which zinc-containing cysteine centers gain redox sensitivity or maintain their status as purely structural and redox-inert protein domains.

In analogy to self-splicing introns, which are nucleotide sequences that reside within the coding regions of DNA (i.e., exon) and catalyze their own excision [84], intervening proteins (i.e., inteins) reside within host proteins (i.e., exteins) and excise themselves upon translation [85, 86]. Exteins become functional once inteins excise and their termini are religated. Depending on their structural organization, inteins can be separated into two basic categories; cis- and trans-splicing inteins [87]. Cis-splicing inteins are single polypeptides embedded into host proteins. Based on their domain structure, they are classiﬁed into mini-inteins, which contain the two conserved N-terminal and C-terminal intein fragments IN and IC with protein splicing activity, or maxi-inteins, whose two fragments are separated by a sequence-speciﬁc DNA homing endonuclease [88,89]. In trans-splicing inteins (i.e., split inteins), the N- and Cterminal intein fragments are fused to separate exteins and encoded by two different genes. Association of the two motifs is necessary before autocatalytic cleavage can occur [90]. Inteins are present in organisms of all three domains of life but are found exclusively in unicellular organisms; they are absent in multicellular organisms [87]. The dominant group of proteins with inteins are

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Fig. 2. Redox cycle of Hsp33. Under non-stress conditions, the heat shock protein Hsp33 is reduced and chaperone-inactive. All four highly conserved cysteines coordinate one zinc ion with high afﬁnity. (1) Upon exposure to bleach (HOCl) or hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) in combination with elevated temperatures, Hsp33's cysteines form two disulﬁde bonds, causing the zinc to be released. Loss of zinc binding in combination with disulﬁde bond formation leads to the partial unfolding of Hsp33, the required step for Hsp33's activation as a chaperone. Two partially unfolded monomers then associate to form a chaperone-active Hsp33 dimer. (2) Once activated, Hsp33 stabilizes oxidatively unfolding proteins and forms stable client protein–chaperone complexes. (3) Upon return to non-stress conditions, the thioredoxin system reduces Hsp33's disulﬁde bonds, generating a chaperone-active reduced dimer–client protein complex. (4) In the last step, the client protein is transferred to the DnaK/DnaJ/GrpE system for productive refolding, and Hsp33 dissociates into its monomeric, inactive state.

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Fig. 3. Redox regulation of protein splicing. A. Mechanistic scheme of the protein splicing process. The small intervening protein intein (red) is embedded within a host protein (extein), which is inactive until intein is excised and its termini are re-ligated. (1) In the initial reaction, the active site nucleophile XH (cysteine Cys 1 or serine Ser 1) of intein forms a (thio)ester with the adjacent carbonyl carbon of N-extein (yellow). (2) In a subsequent trans(thio)esteriﬁcation reaction, the N-extein is transferred onto the side chain of the ﬁrst C-extein residue (green), which is typically also a cysteine residue (Cys + 1). (3) Complete excision of the intein is achieved by the formation of an aminosuccinimide, which involves a highly conserved Asn, located at the very C-terminus of the intein. (4) In the last step, a new peptide bond is formed between the N-extein and C-extein fragments. B. Schematic representation of the intein splicing process of the Mma PolII precursor protein. In the oxidized state, the active site cysteine Cys1 forms an intramolecular disulﬁde bond with Cys147, which is also located in the intein. This causes the inactivation of intein's self-splicing function. Incubation with reducing agents (e.g., DTT, TCEP) reduces the disulﬁde bond, and the intein undergoes the previously described self-splicing process, leading to the activation of the host protein.

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regulated via reversible disulﬁde bond formation as well. Indeed, sequence analysis revealed at least one member of the intein family containing a C-X-X-Cys1 motif. This intein was found to be embedded within the molybdate biosynthesis enzyme MoaA and is present in the anaerobic hyperthermophilic archaebacterium Pyrococcus abyssi [93]. Using a splicing reporter construct containing the intein of Pab MoaA ﬂanked by its native N-extein sequence conﬁrmed the previous results and showed that disulﬁde bond formation occurs within the oxidizing environment of the origami strain, and blocks the self-splicing activity of Pab MoaA's intein until reducing conditions are restored [93]. A second potentially redox-regulated intein was recently discovered in P. abyssi [95]. This intein interrupts the DP2 subunit of DNA polymerase II (Pab PolΙI), an essential protein involved in DNA replication. Splicing is induced by high temperature, ensuring that the DNA polymerase is only active at the appropriate temperatures. It was therefore surprising when a puriﬁed precursor construct, consisting of the Pab PolΙI intein ﬂanked by a short N-extein and His-tagged C-extein was found to harbor a disulﬁde bond connecting the two active site cysteines Cys1 and Cys + 1 [95]. This disulﬁde bond effectively prevented the splicing of the intron even at elevated temperatures unless reducing agents were present. Since the two cysteines are 185 aa apart from each other in sequence, it was unclear how disulﬁde bond formation was achieved. Yet, analysis of the extein sequences directly adjacent to the two cysteines revealed three positively charged amino acids upstream of Cys1 and three negatively charged amino acids immediately downstream of Cys + 1. Replacing the three positively charged amino acids with negatively charged amino acids drastically reduced disulﬁde bond formation, implying that electrostatic interactions might help to bring the two cysteines in close proximity [95]. A third redoxregulated intein was identiﬁed in late 2013 the DNA PolII of Methanoculleus marisnigri, another thermophilic and anaerobic archaebacterium [96]. Unlike in Pab PolII, however, only one of the two cysteines involved in the regulatory disulﬁde bond is an active site cysteine (i.e., Cys1). The other cysteine is located within the intein sequence, at position Cys147, which appears to be also crucial for the splicing process [96] (Fig. 3B).

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The independent discovery of three redox-sensitive inteins strongly argues that reversible disulﬁde bond formation might be a general mechanism to regulate intein activity. Since all three inteins have been identiﬁed in anaerobic organisms, the authors of these studies speculated that the redox regulation of intein splicing occurs when these anaerobic organisms encounter oxygen. Inactivation of intein splicing in the presence of oxygen would prevent the assembly of the oxidation-sensitive Fe–S-cluster in MoaA, and inhibit DNA replication until non-oxidative stress conditions are restored [93,95,96]. At this point it is still unclear, however, if and to what extent disulﬁde bond formation occurs in vivo and whether oxidative inactivation of intein splicing in archaebacteria is indeed physiologically relevant. Future in vivo thiol trapping will help to provide the answer to this important question. Independent support, however, comes from studies on the Hedgehog (Hh) protein, a protein involved in signaling processes of multicellular organisms [97,98]. Hedgehog proteins consist of two domains, an N-terminal Hedge domain and a C-terminal, intein-like, Hog domain with self-splicing activity. Like the Cys1 of inteins, Hog domains contain an active site cysteine, which forms a thioester with the carbonyl group of the adjacent Hedge domain (Fig. 3A). A cholesterol moiety then displaces the Hog domain, generating a Hedge-cholesterol ester [89], and releasing the Hog protein. Critical for splicing of the Hedgehog protein, which occurs in the endoplasmic reticulum, is the reduction of a disulﬁde bond, which forms between the active site cysteine, and a second equally highly conserved cysteine [99]. These results suggest that the redox regulation of protein self-splicing activity is a much more widely used control mechanism than initially anticipated.

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The common feature shared by all members of the peroxiredoxin family is their active site cysteine (i.e., peroxidatic cysteine), which, upon reaction with peroxide, forms a sulfenic acid intermediate and reduces the oxidant to harmless water [61,121] (Fig. 5). Regeneration of the active site cysteine in peroxiredoxins depends on the speciﬁc type of peroxiredoxins (for excellent recent reviews please see [122]). In 1-Cys peroxiredoxins (e.g., Prx-6) the sulfenic acid is either reduced by ascorbate or low molecular weight thiols, although the physiological reduction mechanisms of peroxiredoxins such as Prx-6 are still not entirely clear. In 2-Cys peroxiredoxins, a second, equally highly conserved cysteine (i.e., resolving cysteine) forms an intra- or intermolecular disulﬁde bond with the peroxidatic sulfenic acid [123]. This disulﬁde bond is subsequently reduced by thioredoxin, using a direct thiol– disulﬁde exchange mechanism [124]. Re-reduction of thioredoxin by thioredoxin reductase and NADPH ultimately closes the catalytic cycle (Fig. 5). Alternatively, select 2-Cys peroxiredoxins may interact with and oxidize other redox-sensitive cysteines, getting re-reduced in this process (Fig. 5, see Section 4). The active site cysteine in peroxiredoxin is located 13 Å apart from the resolving cysteine. Effective disulﬁde bond formation requires signiﬁcant conformational changes and the local unfolding of the active site [125]. In eukaryotic 2-Cys peroxiredoxins, a C-terminal extension appears to further slow down this unfolding process, making the peroxidatic sulfenic acid prone to react with a second molecule of peroxide to form sulﬁnic acid [117]. This result puzzled researchers for some time, and raised the question why organisms evolved peroxiredoxins, which lose their peroxidase function under high peroxide conditions. The discovery of sulﬁredoxin, an enzyme speciﬁcally dedicated to reduce overoxidized peroxiredoxins, however, opened the possibility that this transient inactivation of peroxiredoxin is part of a physiologically relevant, regulatory mechanism [126]. Indeed, a number of recent studies provide supporting evidence that inactivation of peroxiredoxin by overoxidation is indeed beneﬁcial and necessary under conditions of severe oxidative stress. Transient inactivation of peroxiredoxin in mammalian cells, for instance, allows for a localized increase in the amplitude of peroxide, which appears to be necessary for optimal stimulation of signaling cascades (i.e., ﬂood gate hypothesis) [117]. Moreover, recent study in ﬁssion yeast revealed that overoxidation of peroxiredoxin frees up the thioredoxin pool, which can then be used to reduce and restore activity of other essential proteins that are prone to oxidation [127]. Rhee and coworkers demonstrated another physiological role for the oxidative inactivation of peroxiredoxin. Prx3, a mitochondrial 2-Cys peroxiredoxin located in the mouse adrenal cortex was found to undergo oxidative inactivation,

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Fig. 4. Mechanism of sulfenamide formation in protein tyrosine phosphatase B1 (PTPB1). (1) Exposure of the catalytic cysteine 215 (RSH) of PTPB1 to H2O2 leads to the formation of a sulfenic acid (RSOH), which undergoes (2) intramolecular cyclization with a nearby amino group, yielding in sulfenamide (RSNR). (3) Reduction of the sulfenamide is mediated by forming a mixed disulﬁde formation with glutathione, which is subsequently resolved by glutaredoxin.

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triggered by Cytochrome P450-mediated H2O2 production during corticosterone synthesis. This inactivation, which followed circadian oscillations, appears to provide an alternative feedback mechanism to regulate steroidogenesis [128]. Finally, overoxidation of peroxiredoxin in yeast and other select model organisms has been shown to cause the formation of very high oligomeric structures, which exert ATP-independent chaperone function similar to the redox regulated chaperone Hsp33 [129] (Fig. 5). These studies, which have so far only been conducted in vitro, would explain how eukaryotic cells, which do not contain Hsp33, deal with protein unfolding under ATP-depleted oxidative stress conditions. Oligomeric, chaperone-active peroxiredoxin is thought to expose hydrophobic surfaces capable of binding protein-folding intermediates and prevent their aggregation. So far, however, little is known about the precise mechanism by which chaperone activity is induced, how many proteins rely on peroxiredoxin's chaperone function in vivo, and what the fate of peroxiredoxin's client proteins is. It is conceivable that peroxiredoxins use the ATP-dependent reduction by sulﬁredoxin to induce client release and support refolding. However, the fact that activation of peroxiredoxin's chaperone function also occurs in mutant peroxiredoxins that lack the active site cysteine (and hence cannot be overoxidized) [129], or upon incubation in low pH conditions [130], suggests that other factors might be involved in client release. Future in vitro and in vivo studies are necessary to answer these important questions.

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Fig. 5. Peroxiredoxin — an enzyme with multiple personalities. (1) Peroxiredoxins (orange) are responsible for the breakdown of hydrogen peroxide. In this process, their peroxidatic cysteines become oxidized to sulfenic acids. (2) Intermolecular disulﬁde bond formation with the resolving cysteines in Prx follows. (3) The disulﬁde bond is subsequently reduced by the Trx system. (4) In an alternative pathway, oxidized peroxiredoxin interacts with the thiol group of a reduced client protein (e.g. Yap1p), forming an intermolecular disulﬁde bond. (5) This disulﬁde bond is then resolved by a thiol–disulﬁde exchange reaction, yielding in an intramolecular disulﬁde bond within the client protein and reduced Prx. (6) High levels of peroxide lead to the formation of sulﬁnic acid at the active site cysteine and the inactivation of the peroxidase function. (7) Overoxidation triggers the assembly of peroxiredoxin into higher molecular weight structures, which exert chaperone function in vitro. (8) ATP-dependent sulﬁredoxin (SRX) reduces the sulﬁnic acid in peroxiredoxin.

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