Publication Date:
1999-04-24
Description:
Only a few intracellular S-nitrosylated proteins have been identified, and it is unknown if protein S-nitrosylation/denitrosylation is a component of signal transduction cascades. Caspase-3 zymogens were found to be S-nitrosylated on their catalytic-site cysteine in unstimulated human cell lines and denitrosylated upon activation of the Fas apoptotic pathway. Decreased caspase-3 S-nitrosylation was associated with an increase in intracellular caspase activity. Fas therefore activates caspase-3 not only by inducing the cleavage of the caspase zymogen to its active subunits, but also by stimulating the denitrosylation of its active-site thiol. Protein S-nitrosylation/denitrosylation can thus serve as a regulatory process in signal transduction pathways.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Mannick, J B -- Hausladen, A -- Liu, L -- Hess, D T -- Zeng, M -- Miao, Q X -- Kane, L S -- Gow, A J -- Stamler, J S -- GM57601-01/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- HL52529/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- HL59130/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Apr 23;284(5414):651-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Adult Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA. joan_mannick@dfci.harvard.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10213689" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Antigens, CD95/*physiology
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Apoptosis
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Binding Sites
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Caspase 3
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Caspases/*metabolism
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Cell Line
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Cysteine/*metabolism
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Enzyme Activation
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Enzyme Inhibitors/pharmacology
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Enzyme Precursors/metabolism
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Humans
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*Mercaptoethanol
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Nitric Oxide/*metabolism
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Nitric Oxide Synthase/antagonists & inhibitors
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Nitrites/metabolism
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Nitroso Compounds/metabolism
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*S-Nitrosothiols
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Signal Transduction
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omega-N-Methylarginine/pharmacology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
