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Thiol-Dependent Recovery of Catalytic Activity from Oxidized Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases

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BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 52, Issue 37, Pages 6412-6423

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bi400451m

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  1. National Institutes of Health [CA 100757]
  2. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicines (NCCAM) [P50AT006273]
  3. Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS)
  4. National Cancer Institute (NCI)

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Protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) play an important role in the regulation of mammalian signal transduction. During some cell signaling processes, the generation of endogenous hydrogen peroxide inactivates selected PTPs via oxidation of the enzyme's catalytic cysteine thiolate group. Importantly, low-molecular weight and protein thiols in the cell have the potential to regenerate the catalytically active PTPs. Here we examined the recovery of catalytic activity from two oxidatively inactivated PTPs (PTP1B and SHP-2) by various low-molecular weight thiols and the enzyme thioredoxin. All monothiols examined regenerated the catalytic activity of oxidized PTP1B, with apparent rate constants that varied by a factor of approximately 8. In general, molecules bearing thiol groups were particularly effective. The biological thiol glutathione repaired oxidized PTP1B with an apparent second-order rate constant of 0.023 +/- 0.004 M-1 s(-1), while the dithiol dithiothreitol (DTT) displayed an apparent second-order rate constant of 0.325 +/- 0.007 M-1 s(-1). The enzyme thioredoxin regenerated the catalytic activity of oxidized PTP1B at a substantially faster rate than DTT. Thioredoxin (2 mu M) converted oxidized PTP1B to the active form with an observed rate constant of 1.4 x 10(-3) s(-1). The rates at which these agents regenerated oxidized PTP1B followed the order Trx > DTT > GSHand comparable values observed at 2 mu M Trx, 4 mM DTT, and 60 mM GSH. Various disulfides that are byproducts of the reactivation process did not inactivate native PTP1B at concentrations of 1-20 mM. The common biochemical reducing agent tris(2-carboxyethyl)phosphine regenerates enzymatic activity from oxidized PTP1B somewhat faster than the thiol-based reagents, with a rate constant of 1.5 +/- 0.5 M-1 s(-1). We observed profound kinetic differences between the thiol-dependent regeneration of activity from oxidized PTP1B and SHP-2, highlighting the potential for structural differences in various oxidized PTPs to play a significant role in the rates at which low-molecular weight thiols and thiol-containing enzymes such as thioredoxin and glutaredoxin return catalytic activity to these enzymes during cell signaling events.

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