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Mining for protein S-sulfenylation in Arabidopsis uncovers redox-sensitive sites

ABSTRACT: Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is an important messenger molecule for diverse cellular processes. H2O2 oxidizes proteinaceous cysteinyl thiols to sulfenic acid, also known as S-sulfenylation, thereby affecting the protein conformation and functionality. Although many proteins have been identified as S-sulfenylation targets in plants, site-specific mapping and quantification remain largely unexplored. By means of peptide-centric chemoproteomics, 1,537 S-sulfenylated sites were mapped on more than 1,000 proteins in Arabidopsis thaliana cells. The H2O2 sensitivity was quantified of more than 70% of these endogenous oxidation events toward exogenous H2O2 stimulation. Proteins involved in RNA and metabolic processing were identified as hotspots for S-sulfenylation. Moreover, S-sulfenylation frequently occurred on cysteines located in catalytic sites of enzymes or on cysteines involved in metal binding, hinting at direct mode-of-actions for redox regulation. Comparison of human and Arabidopsis S-sulfenylation datasets provided 155 conserved S-sulfenylated cysteines, including Cys181 of the Arabidopsis MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE4 (AtMAPK4) that corresponds to Cys161 in the human MAPK1, which is speculated to be a redox-regulatory site. Replacement of the noncatalytic Cys181 of the recombinant AtMAPK4 by the redox-insensitive serine decreased the protein kinase activity, emphasizing the importance of this noncatalytic cysteine. Altogether, we quantitatively mapped the S-sulfenylated cysteines in Arabidopsis plants under oxidative stress and delivered an unprecedented inventory for unraveling the precise role of these oxidized cysteines in plant redox signaling.

INSTRUMENT(S): Orbitrap Fusion

ORGANISM(S): Arabidopsis Thaliana (mouse-ear Cress)

TISSUE(S): Plant Cell

SUBMITTER: Jing Yang

LAB HEAD: Jing Yang

PROVIDER: PXD013495 | Pride | 2019-09-16

REPOSITORIES: Pride

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Mining for protein S-sulfenylation in Arabidopsis uncovers redox-sensitive sites.

Huang Jingjing J Willems Patrick P Wei Bo B Tian Caiping C Ferreira Renan B RB Bodra Nandita N Martínez Gache Santiago Agustín SA Wahni Khadija K Liu Keke K Vertommen Didier D Gevaert Kris K Carroll Kate S KS Van Montagu Marc M Yang Jing J Van Breusegem Frank F Messens Joris J

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20191002 42

Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is an important messenger molecule for diverse cellular processes. H2O2 oxidizes proteinaceous cysteinyl thiols to sulfenic acid, also known as S-sulfenylation, thereby affecting the protein conformation and functionality. Although many proteins have been identified as S-sulfenylation targets in plants, site-specific mapping and quantification remain largely unexplored. By means of a peptide-centric chemoproteomics approach, we ...[more]

PMID: 31578252

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Mining for protein S-sulfenylation in Arabidopsis uncovers redox-sensitive sites

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