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Alternative pathway of H<sub>2</sub>S and polysulfides production from sulfurated catalytic-cysteine of reaction intermediates of 3-mercaptopyruvate sulfurtransferase.

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It has been known that hydrogen sulfide and/or polysulfides are produced from a (poly)sulfurated sulfur-acceptor substrate of 3-mercaptopyruvate sulfurtransferase (MST) via thioredoxin (Trx) reduction in vitro. In this study, we used thiosulfate as the donor substrate and the catalytic reaction was terminated on the formation of a persulfide or polysulfides. We can present alternative pathway of production of hydrogen sulfide and/or polysulfides from (poly)sulfurated catalytic-site cysteine of reaction intermediates of MST via Trx reduction. Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization tandem time-of-flight mass spectrometric analysis revealed that after prolonged incubation of MST with thiosulfate, a trisulfide adduct becomes predominant at the sulfurated catalytic-site cysteine. When these adducts were reduced by Trx with reducing system (MST:Escherichia coli Trx:E. coli Trx reductase:NADPH = 1:5:0.02:12.5 molar ratio), liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometric analysis for monobromobimane-derivatized H2Sn revealed that H2S2 first appeared, and then H2S and H2S3 did later. The results were confirmed by high-performance liquid chromatography-fluorescence analysis.

Year of Publication
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2018
Journal
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Biochemical and biophysical research communications
Date Published
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2018
ISSN Number
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0006-291X
URL
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http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0006-291X(18)30062-7
DOI
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10.1016/j.bbrc.2018.01.056
Short Title
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Biochem Biophys Res Commun
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