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Antioxidants, Volume 7, Issue 11

2018 November - 21 articles

Cover Story: In plants, thiol-based redox regulation ensures light-responsive control of chloroplast functions. Ferredoxin-thioredoxin reductase (FTR) and thioredoxin (Trx) play pivotal roles in transferring reducing power from the photosynthetic electron transport chain to target proteins; however, it remains unclear which step in a series of redox-relay reactions is the critical bottleneck for determining the rate of target protein reduction. Based on biochemical and physiological findings, the authors have determined the rate-limiting step for chloroplast redox regulation. View this paper.
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Articles (21)

  • Review
  • Open Access
132 Citations
7,844 Views
15 Pages

21 November 2018

Cold temperatures restrict plant growth, geographical extension of plant species, and agricultural practices. This review deals with cold stress above freezing temperatures often defined as chilling stress. It focuses on the redox regulatory network...

  • Review
  • Open Access
73 Citations
10,433 Views
34 Pages

20 November 2018

Membranes are of outmost importance to allow for specific signal transduction due to their ability to localize, amplify, and direct signals. However, due to the double-edged nature of reactive oxygen species (ROS)—toxic at high concentrations b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,205 Views
8 Pages

GPX1 Localizes to the Nucleus in Prostate Epithelium and its Levels are not Associated with Prostate Cancer Recurrence

  • Dede N. Ekoue,
  • Emmanuel Ansong,
  • Lenny K. Hong,
  • Larisa Nonn,
  • Virgilia Macias,
  • Ryan Deaton,
  • Rawan Rupnow,
  • Peter H. Gann,
  • Andre Kajdacsy-Balla and
  • Alan M. Diamond

18 November 2018

Glutathione peroxidase 1 (GPX1) is an extensively studied selenium-dependent protein that reduces hydrogen and lipid peroxides to water. Because of its antioxidant function and its responsiveness to dietary intakes of selenium, an essential trace ele...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,054 Views
11 Pages

17 November 2018

The redox regulation of proteins via reversible dithiol/disulfide exchange reactions involves the thioredoxin system, which is composed of a reductant, a thioredoxin reductase (TR), and thioredoxin (Trx). In the pyridine nucleotide-dependent Trx redu...

  • Review
  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,931 Views
19 Pages

Structural/Functional Matches and Divergences of Phytoprostanes and Phytofurans with Bioactive Human Oxylipins

  • Sonia Medina,
  • Ángel Gil-Izquierdo,
  • Thierry Durand,
  • Federico Ferreres and
  • Raúl Domínguez-Perles

16 November 2018

Structure-activity relationship (SAR) constitutes a crucial topic to discover new bioactive molecules. This approach initiates with the comparison of a target candidate with a molecule or a collection of molecules and their attributed biological func...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,085 Views
15 Pages

Characterization of TrxC, an Atypical Thioredoxin Exclusively Present in Cyanobacteria

  • Luis López-Maury,
  • Luis G. Heredia-Martínez and
  • Francisco J. Florencio

13 November 2018

Cyanobacteria form a diverse group of oxygenic photosynthetic prokaryotes considered to be the antecessor of plant chloroplast. They contain four different thioredoxins isoforms, three of them corresponding to m, x and y type present in plant chlorop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
72 Citations
6,899 Views
10 Pages

Production of a Novel Functional Fruit Beverage Consisting of Cornelian Cherry Juice and Probiotic Bacteria

  • Ioanna Mantzourani,
  • Chryssa Nouska,
  • Antonia Terpou,
  • Athanasios Alexopoulos,
  • Eugenia Bezirtzoglou,
  • Mihalis I. Panayiotidis,
  • Alexis Galanis and
  • Stavros Plessas

12 November 2018

The present study describes the development of a novel functional beverage through the application of probiotic Lactobacillus plantarum ATCC (American Type Culture Collection) 14917 in Cornelian cherry juice fermentation. The probiotic was employed i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,103 Views
9 Pages

Exercise and Redox Status Responses Following Alpha-Lipoic Acid Supplementation in G6PD Deficient Individuals

  • Kalliopi Georgakouli,
  • Ioannis G. Fatouros,
  • Apostolos Fragkos,
  • Theofanis Tzatzakis,
  • Chariklia K. Deli,
  • Konstantinos Papanikolaou,
  • Yiannis Koutedakis and
  • Athanasios Z. Jamurtas

12 November 2018

G6PD deficiency renders cells more susceptible to oxidative insults, while antioxidant dietary supplementation could restore redox balance and ameliorate exercise-induced oxidative stress. To examine the effects of alpha-lipoic acid (ALA) supplementa...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,922 Views
10 Pages

11 November 2018

Cancer cells are abnormal cells that do not comply with tissue homeostasis but undergo uncontrolled proliferation. Such abnormality is driven mostly by somatic mutations on oncogenes and tumor suppressors. Cancerous mutations show intra-tumoral heter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,969 Views
20 Pages

Comparative Effects of Coenzyme Q10 or n-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Supplementation on Retinal Angiogenesis in a Rat Model of Oxygen-Induced Retinopathy

  • Kay D. Beharry,
  • Charles L. Cai,
  • Faisal Siddiqui,
  • Sara Chowdhury,
  • Christina D’Agrosa,
  • Gloria B. Valencia and
  • Jacob V. Aranda

9 November 2018

Neonatal intermittent hypoxia (IH) or apnea afflicts 70% to 90% of all preterm infants <28 weeks gestation, and is associated with severe retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). We tested the hypotheses that coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) or omega-3 polyunsaturat...

  • Review
  • Open Access
73 Citations
9,376 Views
23 Pages

Hydrogen Peroxide and Redox Regulation of Developments

  • Christine Rampon,
  • Michel Volovitch,
  • Alain Joliot and
  • Sophie Vriz

6 November 2018

Reactive oxygen species (ROS), which were originally classified as exclusively deleterious compounds, have gained increasing interest in the recent years given their action as bona fide signalling molecules. The main target of ROS action is the rever...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,850 Views
12 Pages

5 November 2018

Resveratrol is a plant-derived polyphenol that has been widely studied for its putative health promoting effects. Many of those studies have been conducted in cell culture, in supra-physiological levels of oxygen and glucose. Resveratrol interacts wi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,636 Views
14 Pages

1 November 2018

The fruit of Dialium indum L. (Fabaceae) is one of the edible wild fruits native to Southeast Asia. The mesocarp is consumed as sweets while the exocarp and seed are regarded as waste. This study aimed to evaluate the antioxidant activities of the fr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,649 Views
18 Pages

In Vivo Effects of Methionine Sulfoxide Reductase Deficiency in Drosophila melanogaster

  • Lindsay Bruce,
  • Diana Singkornrat,
  • Kelsey Wilson,
  • William Hausman,
  • Kelli Robbins,
  • Lingxi Huang,
  • Katie Foss and
  • David Binninger

1 November 2018

The deleterious alteration of protein structure and function due to the oxidation of methionine residues has been studied extensively in age-associated neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease. Methionine su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,043 Views
14 Pages

31 October 2018

Thiol-based redox control is one of the important posttranslational mechanisms of the tetrapyrrole biosynthesis pathway. Many enzymes of the pathway have been shown to interact with thioredoxin (TRX) and Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (N...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,962 Views
8 Pages

31 October 2018

Thiol-based redox regulation ensures light-responsive control of chloroplast functions. Light-derived signal is transferred in the form of reducing power from the photosynthetic electron transport chain to several redox-sensitive target proteins. Two...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,116 Views
16 Pages

Hmox1 Upregulation Is a Mutual Marker in Human Tumor Cells Exposed to Physical Plasma-Derived Oxidants

  • Sander Bekeschus,
  • Eric Freund,
  • Kristian Wende,
  • Rajesh Kumar Gandhirajan and
  • Anke Schmidt

27 October 2018

Increasing numbers of cancer deaths worldwide demand for new treatment avenues. Cold physical plasma is a partially ionized gas expelling a variety of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species, which can be harnesses therapeutically. Plasmas and plasma-tr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,647 Views
10 Pages

Effects of Bcl-2/Bcl-xL Inhibitors on Pulmonary Artery Smooth Muscle Cells

  • Vladyslava Rybka,
  • Yuichiro J. Suzuki and
  • Nataliia V. Shults

26 October 2018

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a fatal disease without satisfactory therapeutic options. By the time patients are diagnosed with this disease, the remodeling of pulmonary arteries has already developed due to the abnormal growth of pulmonar...

  • Review
  • Open Access
99 Citations
18,604 Views
18 Pages

25 October 2018

Heat stroke (HS) is an ancient illness dating back more than 2000 years and continues to be a health threat and to cause fatality during physical exertion, especially in military personnel, fire-fighters, athletes, and outdoor laborers. The current p...

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