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SUBMITTER: Yang Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1904139 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yang Yi Y Song Yanli Y Loscalzo Joseph J
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20070620 26
The majority of protein disulfides in cells is considered an important inert structural, rather than a dynamic regulatory, determinant of protein function. Here, we show that some disulfides in proteins also are regulated by cell redox status with functional consequences. We find that reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced by mitochondria are actively used by cells to facilitate cell-surface protein disulfide formation, as well as folding and transport, in mammalian cells. Inhibition of mitochon ...[more]