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Profiling Thiol Redox Proteome Using Isotope Tagging Mass Spectrometry
Published on: March 24, 2012
Protein oxidation in plant mitochondria detected as oxidized tryptophan
Ian M Møller1, Brian K Kristensen
1Department of Agricultural Sciences, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Thorvaldsensvej 40, DK-1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark. imm@kvl.dk
Abstract:
The formation of N-formylkynurenine by dioxygenation of tryptophan was detected in peptides from rice leaf and potato tuber mitochondria. Proteins in matrix and membrane fractions were separated by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and identified using a Q-TOF mass spectrometer. N-Formylkynurenine was detected in 29 peptides representing 17 different proteins. With one exception, the oxidation-sensitive aconitase, all of these proteins were either redox active themselves or subunits in redox-active enzyme complexes. The same site was modified in (i) several adjacent spots containing the P protein of the glycine decarboxylase complex, (ii) two different isoforms of the mitochondrial processing peptidase in complex III, and (iii) the same tryptophan residues in Mn-superoxide dismutase in both rice and potato mitochondria. This indicates that Trp oxidation is a selective process.
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