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xMSanalyzer: automated pipeline for improved feature detection and downstream analysis of large-scale, non-targeted metabolomics dataKaran Uppal
Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
BMC Bioinformatics 14:15. 2013..abstract:..
Nutritional metabolomics: progress in addressing complexity in diet and healthDean P Jones
Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Annu Rev Nutr 32:183-202. 2012....
Redox analysis of human plasma allows separation of pro-oxidant events of aging from decline in antioxidant defensesDean P Jones
Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Free Radic Biol Med 33:1290-300. 2002..In principle, such analyses can be used to assess efficacy of intervention strategies against oxidative stress prior to or early after onset of clinical symptoms in aging and age-related disease...
Measuring the poise of thiol/disulfide couples in vivoDean P Jones
Clinical Biomarkers Laboratory, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Free Radic Biol Med 47:1329-38. 2009....
Radical-free biology of oxidative stressDean P Jones
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Clinical Biomarkers Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 295:C849-68. 2008..Considerable opportunity exists to elucidate specific thiol control pathways and develop interventional strategies to restore normal redox control and protect against oxidative stress in aging and age-related disease...
Cysteine/cystine couple is a newly recognized node in the circuitry for biologic redox signaling and controlDean P Jones
Department of Medicine, 4131 Rollins Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
FASEB J 18:1246-8. 2004..Moreover, inclusion of cysteine/cystine as a signaling node distinct from GSH and Trx1 significantly expands the redox range over which protein thiol/disulfide couples may operate to control physiologically relevant processes...
Extracellular redox state: refining the definition of oxidative stress in agingDean P Jones
Clinical Biomarkers Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Rejuvenation Res 9:169-81. 2006....
Redefining oxidative stressDean P Jones
Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Whitehead Biomedical Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Antioxid Redox Signal 8:1865-79. 2006..Adoption of such a definition could redirect research to identify key perturbations of redox signaling and control and lead to new treatments for oxidative stress-related disease processes...
Redox state of glutathione in human plasmaD P Jones
Department of Biochemistry, Atlanta, GA, USA
Free Radic Biol Med 28:625-35. 2000..These results suggest that E(h) values for GSSG/2GSH and CySS-mono-Gly/(Cys. CysGly) may provide useful means to quantitatively express the oxidant/antioxidant balance in clinical and epidemiologic studies...
Disruption of mitochondrial redox circuitry in oxidative stressDean P Jones
Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Chem Biol Interact 163:38-53. 2006....
Glutathione measurement in human plasma. Evaluation of sample collection, storage and derivatization conditions for analysis of dansyl derivatives by HPLCD P Jones
Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Clin Chim Acta 275:175-84. 1998..Results from 59 healthy individuals (20-43 years) provided a mean (+/-1 SD) GSH value of 2.09+/-1.14 micromolar...
Redox sensing: orthogonal control in cell cycle and apoptosis signallingD P Jones
Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
J Intern Med 268:432-48. 2010..Recent findings that thiol-disulphide pools in humans are oxidized with age, environmental exposures and disease risk suggest that redox-sensing thiols could provide a central mechanistic link in disease development and progression...
Redox compartmentalization and cellular stressD P Jones
Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Diabetes Obes Metab 12:116-25. 2010....
Mapping the cysteine proteome: analysis of redox-sensing thiolsDean P Jones
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Curr Opin Chem Biol 15:103-12. 2011..Complementary databases and Cys proteome maps are needed to describe thiol redox circuits and connect these to functional redox-dependent pathways. This article summarizes progress in quantitative redox proteomics to develop such maps...
Dietary sulfur amino acid effects on fasting plasma cysteine/cystine redox potential in humansDean P Jones
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Nutrition 27:199-205. 2011..The present study examined the effect of dietary SAA intake level on free Cys, free CySS, and E(h)CySS in human plasma under fasting conditions...
H2O2-dependent activation of GCLC-ARE4 reporter occurs by mitogen-activated protein kinase pathways without oxidation of cellular glutathione or thioredoxin-1Young Mi Go
Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
J Biol Chem 279:5837-45. 2004..Thus, "redox signaling" resulting in kinase signaling pathways is distinct from "oxidative stress," and is mediated by discrete, localized redox circuitry...
Selective protection of nuclear thioredoxin-1 and glutathione redox systems against oxidation during glucose and glutamine deficiency in human colonic epithelial cellsYoung Mi Go
Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Free Radic Biol Med 42:363-70. 2007..These results further suggest that energy and/or substrate supply may contribute to sensitivity of mitochondrial and cytoplasmic systems to oxidative damage...
Selective oxidative stress in cell nuclei by nuclear-targeted D-amino acid oxidasePatrick J Halvey
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Cystic Fibrosis and Sleep, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
Antioxid Redox Signal 9:807-16. 2007..Furthermore, the attenuation of NF-kappaB reporter activity in the absence of nuclear Trx1 oxidation suggests that critical nuclear redox proteins are subject to control by S-glutathionylation during oxidative stress in the nucleus...
Role of mitochondrial dysfunction in S-(1,2-dichlorovinyl)-l-cysteine-induced apoptosisY Chen
Program of Biochemistry, Cell Biology and Developmental Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 170:172-80. 2001..These results support the interpretation that mitochondrial release of cyt c and cyt c-dependent activation of caspase-3 could have a central role in nephrotoxicity due to haloalkene-derived cysteine S-conjugates...
Intracellular proatherogenic events and cell adhesion modulated by extracellular thiol/disulfide redox stateYoung-Mi Go
Department of Medicine, Divisions of Cardiology and Pulmonary, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Circulation 111:2973-80. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: The extracellular thiol/disulfide E(h) of the Cys/CySS couple plays a key role in regulating early events of atherosclerosis and could be useful as a potential marker for vascular disease risk...
Protective effect of the dimer of 16,16-diMePGB1 against KCN-induced mitochondrial failure in hepatocytesY Park
Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322
Am J Physiol 263:C405-11. 1992..These results demonstrate that dicalciphor protects against KCN-induced damage and that this protection is associated with regulation of specific mitochondrial ion transport functions...
Control of extracellular cysteine/cystine redox state by HT-29 cells is independent of cellular glutathioneCorinna L Anderson
Department of Medicine Pulmonary, Emory University School of Medicine, 615 Michael Street, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 293:R1069-75. 2007..The results suggest that transport systems for Cys and CySS and/or membranal oxidoreductases could be more important than cellular GSH in regulation of extracellular Cys/CySS E(h)...
Intestinal redox status of major intracellular thiols in a rat model of chronic alcohol consumptionJunqiang Tian
Nutrition and Health Science Program, Graduate School of Arts and Science, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr 33:662-8. 2009..In this study, we investigated the redox status of 2 major intracellular redox regulating couples: glutathione (GSH)/glutathione disulfide (GSSG) and cysteine (Cys)/cystine (CySS) in a rat model of chronic alcohol ingestion...
Oxidative damage and protection of the RPEJ Cai
Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Prog Retin Eye Res 19:205-21. 2000..These results indicate that therapeutic or nutritional intervention to enhance the GSH antioxidant capacity of RPE may provide an effective way to prevent or treat AMD...
Compartmentation of Nrf-2 redox control: regulation of cytoplasmic activation by glutathione and DNA binding by thioredoxin-1Jason M Hansen
Department of Medicine and Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Toxicol Sci 82:308-17. 2004..In contrast, the ARE reporter was principally controlled by nuclear-targeted Trx-1 and not by GSH. The data show that the GSH and TRX systems have unique, compartmented functions in the control of transcriptional regulation by Nrf-2/ARE...
Characterization of apical and basal thiol-disulfide redox regulation in human colonic epithelial cellsYanci O Mannery
Dept of Medicine, Emory Univ, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 299:G523-30. 2010....
Extracellular thiol/disulfide redox state affects proliferation rate in a human colon carcinoma (Caco2) cell lineCarolyn R Jonas
Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
Free Radic Biol Med 33:1499-506. 2002..The results show that extracellular thiol/disulfide redox state modulates cell proliferation rate and that this control interacts with growth factor signaling apparently independently of cellular glutathione...
Diurnal variation in glutathione and cysteine redox states in human plasmaRoberto A Blanco
Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Lipids, Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 86:1016-23. 2007..Animal studies show that both pools undergo diurnal variations associated with dietary intake of sulfur amino acids...
Antioxidant supplements prevent oxidation of cysteine/cystine redox in patients with age-related macular degenerationSiobhan E Moriarty-Craige
Department of Ophthalmology, Biochemistry, and Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Am J Ophthalmol 140:1020-6. 2005....
Stimulation of colonic mucosal growth associated with oxidized redox status in ratsJunqiang Tian
General Clinical Research Center, Emory University Hospital, 1364 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 292:R1081-91. 2007..The data also suggest that GSH is required to maintain normal colonic and plasma Cys/CySS homeostasis in these animal models...
Mitochondrial thioredoxin in regulation of oxidant-induced cell deathYan Chen
Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
FEBS Lett 580:6596-602. 2006..The data indicate that the redox status of mtTrx is a regulatory mechanism underlying the vulnerability of mitochondria to oxidative injury...
Compartmental oxidation of thiol-disulphide redox couples during epidermal growth factor signallingPatrick J Halvey
Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, Room 225, Emory University, 615 Michael Street, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Biochem J 386:215-9. 2005..Results showed that only cytosolic Trx1 undergoes significant oxidation. Thus EGF signalling involves subcellular compartmental oxidation of Trx1 in the absence of a generalized cellular oxidation...
Glutamine and KGF each regulate extracellular thiol/disulfide redox and enhance proliferation in Caco-2 cellsCarolyn R Jonas
Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 285:R1421-9. 2003....
Oxidation of extracellular cysteine/cystine redox state in bleomycin-induced lung fibrosisSmita S Iyer
Nutrition and Health Sciences Program, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 296:L37-45. 2009..Thus the data show that decreased precursor availability and enhanced oxidation of Cys each contribute to the oxidation of extracellular Cys/CySS redox state in bleomycin-induced lung fibrosis...
Dietary sulfur amino acid supplementation reduces small bowel thiol/disulfide redox state and stimulates ileal mucosal growth after massive small bowel resection in ratsYvonne Shyntum
Graduate Program in Molecular and Systems Pharmacology, Emory University, Atlanta GA 30322, USA
J Nutr 139:2272-8. 2009..These data suggest that SAA supplementation has a trophic effect on ileal adaptation after massive small bowel resection in rats. This finding may have translational relevance as a therapeutic strategy in human SBS...
Oxidative stress markers are associated with persistent atrial fibrillationRobert B Neuman
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
Clin Chem 53:1652-7. 2007..We compared serum markers of oxidation and associated inflammation in individuals with or without AF...
Glutamine prevents cytokine-induced apoptosis in human colonic epithelial cellsMary E Evans
Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
J Nutr 133:3065-71. 2003..These results show that Gln specifically protects intestinal epithelial cells against cytokine-induced apoptosis, and that this occurs by a mechanism that is distinct from the protection against oxidative stress mediated by cellular GSH...
Overexpressed human mitochondrial thioredoxin confers resistance to oxidant-induced apoptosis in human osteosarcoma cellsYan Chen
Program of Biochemistry, Cell, and Developmental Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
J Biol Chem 277:33242-8. 2002..Thus, human mtTrx is a member of the thioredoxin family of proteins localized to mitochondria and may play important roles in protection against oxidant-induced apoptosis...
A model of redox kinetics implicates the thiol proteome in cellular hydrogen peroxide responsesNnenna J Adimora
Wallace H Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Antioxid Redox Signal 13:731-43. 2010....
Reactive aldehyde modification of thioredoxin-1 activates early steps of inflammation and cell adhesionYoung Mi Go
Department of Medicine Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Am J Pathol 171:1670-81. 2007..Chemical modification of Trx1 by common environmental and endogenously generated reactive aldehydes can contribute to atherosclerosis development by interfering with antioxidant and redox signaling functions of Trx1...
Dietary glutamine and oral antibiotics each improve indexes of gut barrier function in rat short bowel syndromeJunqiang Tian
Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 296:G348-55. 2009..These indexes of gut barrier dysfunction are ameliorated or blunted by administration of dietary GLN or oral ABX, respectively. Dietary GLN upregulates small bowel sIgA in this model...
Extracellular cysteine/cystine redox potential controls lung fibroblast proliferation and matrix expression through upregulation of transforming growth factor-betaAllan Ramirez
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 293:L972-81. 2007..These studies suggest that extracellular oxidant stress activates redox-sensitive pathways that stimulate lung fibroblast proliferation and matrix expression through upregulation of TGF-beta1...
Effects of long-term zinc supplementation on plasma thiol metabolites and redox status in patients with age-related macular degenerationSiobhan E Moriarty Craige
Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Am J Ophthalmol 143:206-211. 2007..To determine the effects of zinc supplementation on plasma thiol metabolites and their redox status in a cohort of patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD)...
Oxidation of plasma cysteine/cystine redox state in endotoxin-induced lung injurySmita S Iyer
Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, 615 Michael Street, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 40:90-8. 2009..Taken together, the results indicate that enhanced oxidation of Cys, altered transport of Cys and CySS, and decreased food intake each contribute to the oxidation of plasma Cys/CySS redox state in endotoxemia...
Reactive species and mitochondrial dysfunction: mechanistic significance of 4-hydroxynonenalJAMES R ROEDE
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Environ Mol Mutagen 51:380-90. 2010..Furthermore, application of improved mass spectrometry-based proteomic methods will lead to further understanding of the critical targets contributing to disease risk...
Increased oxidant-induced apoptosis in cultured nondividing human retinal pigment epithelial cellsShunai Jiang
Department of Ophthalmology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 43:2546-53. 2002..These results suggest that an increase in FasL may contribute to the vulnerability of nondividing hRPE cells to oxidant-induced apoptosis...
Glutathione and thioredoxin redox during differentiation in human colon epithelial (Caco-2) cellsYvonne S Nkabyo
Department of Biochemistry, the Graduate Program in Molecular and Systems Pharmacology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 283:G1352-9. 2002..Therefore, the measured 40-mV oxidation of the cellular GSH/GSSG couple or the 28-mV oxidation of the extracellular cysteine/cystine couple should be sufficient to function in signaling or regulation of differentiation in Caco-2 cells...
Redox potential of GSH/GSSG couple: assay and biological significanceDean P Jones
Department of Biochemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Methods Enzymol 348:93-112. 2002
Glutathione depletion enforces the mitochondrial permeability transition and causes cell death in Bcl-2 overexpressing HL60 cellsJeffrey S Armstrong
Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322 3050, USA
FASEB J 16:1263-5. 2002..The results also suggest a new model for MPT in which the central pore protein ANT is regulated by adenine nucleotide and the activity of mitochondrial respiratory complex III...
Extracellular cysteine/cystine redox regulates the p44/p42 MAPK pathway by metalloproteinase-dependent epidermal growth factor receptor signalingYvonne S Nkabyo
Graduate Program in Molecular and Systems Pharmacology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 289:G70-8. 2005....
Oxidation of the glutathione/glutathione disulfide redox state is induced by cysteine deficiency in human colon carcinoma HT29 cellsLauren T Miller
Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
J Nutr 132:2303-6. 2002..If redox changes occur in vivo in association with variations in dietary Cys and its precursors, these changes could have important physiologic effects through altered redox signaling and control of cell proliferation and apoptosis...
Protection of hepatocytes against death due to mitochondrial failure: effect of di-Calciphor on antimycin A-induced toxicityY Park
Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322
Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 126:33-8. 1994..In addition, the results suggest that the protection of the mitochondria involves preservation of mitochondrial ionic and osmotic stability and does not involve improved ATP supply...
Protection of retinal pigment epithelial cells from oxidative damage by oltipraz, a cancer chemopreventive agentKasey C Nelson
Departments of Ophthalmology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 43:3550-4. 2002..Dietary supplementation with oltipraz or other dithiolethiones may help protect the hRPE against oxidant induced injury...
Long-term exposure to AZT, but not d4T, increases endothelial cell oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunctionErik R Kline
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine Atlanta VA Medical Center, Atlanta, GA 30033, USA
Cardiovasc Toxicol 9:1-12. 2009..Endothelial cells are more susceptible to AZT-induced toxicity than HepG2 cells, and AZT caused greater endothelial dysfunction than d4T because of its pro-oxidative effects...
Association between adherence to the Mediterranean diet and oxidative stressJun Dai
Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Emory Program in Cardiovascular Outcomes Research and Epidemiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30306, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 88:1364-70. 2008..The cardioprotective property of the Mediterranean diet has been attributed to its antioxidant capacity, but direct investigation of this mechanism has been limited...
Oxidant-induced apoptosis in human retinal pigment epithelial cells: dependence on extracellular redox stateShunai Jiang
Department of Ophthalmology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 46:1054-61. 2005....
Mitochondrial thioredoxin-2/peroxiredoxin-3 system functions in parallel with mitochondrial GSH system in protection against oxidative stressHong Zhang
Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Whitehead Biomedical Research Center, 615 Michael Street, Suite 205P, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Arch Biochem Biophys 465:119-26. 2007..The additive protection by Trx2 and GSH shows that Trx2 and GSH systems are both functionally important at low oxidative stress conditions...
Vascular oxidative stress and nitric oxide depletion in HIV-1 transgenic rats are reversed by glutathione restorationErik R Kline
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Free Radicals in Medicine Core, Emory University School of Medicine Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 294:H2792-804. 2008..Restoring glutathione levels reverses HIV-1 protein-mediated effects on superoxide, NO, and vasorelaxation...
Oxidative stress modulates PPAR gamma in vascular endothelial cellsCarmelo Blanquicett
Department of Medicine, Emory University, and Atlanta VA Medical Centers, Atlanta, GA 30033, USA
Free Radic Biol Med 48:1618-25. 2010....
Thiol/disulfide redox status is oxidized in plasma and small intestinal and colonic mucosa of rats with inadequate sulfur amino acid intakeYvonne S Nkabyo
Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
J Nutr 136:1242-8. 2006..Thus, dietary SAA deficiency could contribute to the progression of disease by causing an oxidation of these components...
Colonic motor dysfunction in human diabetes is associated with enteric neuronal loss and increased oxidative stressB Chandrasekharan
Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Neurogastroenterol Motil 23:131-8, e26. 2011..Gastrointestinal dysfunction is very common in diabetic patients. We assessed the changes in the colonic enteric nervous system using colectomy specimens and intestinal biopsies from diabetic subjects and age-matched controls...
Extracellular thiols and thiol/disulfide redox in metabolismSiobhan E Moriarty-Craige
Nutrition and Health Sciences Program, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Annu Rev Nutr 24:481-509. 2004..Consequently, extracellular redox can have important influences on health status and disease states and thus could be a target for nutritional interventions...
A rapid LC-FTMS method for the analysis of cysteine, cystine and cysteine/cystine steady-state redox potential in human plasmaJennifer M Johnson
Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Clin Chim Acta 396:43-8. 2008..The steady-state redox potential of the cysteine/cystine couple in human plasma provides a measure of oxidative stress, yet available assays are limited by either specificity or speed of assay...
Inhibition of influenza infection by glutathioneJiyang Cai
Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Free Radic Biol Med 34:928-36. 2003..Oxidative stress or other conditions that deplete GSH in the epithelium of the oral, nasal, and upper airway may, therefore, enhance susceptibility to influenza infection...
apLCMS--adaptive processing of high-resolution LC/MS dataTianwei Yu
Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Bioinformatics 25:1930-6. 2009..Significant challenges exist in the analysis of LC/MS data, including noise reduction, feature identification/ quantification, feature alignment and computation efficiency...
A key role for mitochondria in endothelial signaling by plasma cysteine/cystine redox potentialYoung Mi Go
Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Free Radic Biol Med 48:275-83. 2010..Together, the data show that the proinflammatory effects of oxidized plasma E(h)CySS are due to a mitochondrial signaling pathway that is mediated through redox control of downstream effector proteins...
Antioxidant micronutrients and biomarkers of oxidative stress and inflammation in colorectal adenoma patients: results from a randomized, controlled clinical trialMyfanwy H Hopkins
Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 19:850-8. 2010....
Detectable serum flagellin and lipopolysaccharide and upregulated anti-flagellin and lipopolysaccharide immunoglobulins in human short bowel syndromeThomas R Ziegler
General Clinical Research Center, Emory University Hospital, 1364 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 294:R402-10. 2008..We conclude that adults with PN-dependent SBS are systemically exposed to flagellin and LPS, presumably from the gut lumen. This likely regulates innate and adaptive immune responses to these specific bacterial products...
Mitochondrial thioredoxin-2 has a key role in determining tumor necrosis factor-alpha-induced reactive oxygen species generation, NF-kappaB activation, and apoptosisJason M Hansen
Division of Pulmonary, Asthma, Cystic Fibrosis and Sleep, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Toxicol Sci 91:643-50. 2006..These findings support the interpretation that mitochondrial-generated ROS is a principal component in TNF-alpha-induced effects and that Trx2 blocks TNF-alpha-induced ROS generation and downstream NF-kappaB activation and apoptosis...
Prohibitin protects against oxidative stress in intestinal epithelial cellsArianne L Theiss
Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
FASEB J 21:197-206. 2007..Thus, strategies to modulate PHB levels may constitute a novel therapeutic approach for intestinal inflammatory diseases, wherein oxidative stress plays a critical role in tissue injury and inflammation...
Association between novel oxidative stress markers and C-reactive protein among adults without clinical coronary heart diseaseJerome L Abramson
Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Emory University, Briarcliff Complex, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Atherosclerosis 178:115-21. 2005..The causes of increased CRP, however, are not completely understood. Studies suggest that oxidative stress may have pro-inflammatory effects, but data on the relationship between oxidative stress and CRP in healthy persons is sparse...
Role of the multidrug resistance protein-1 in hypertension and vascular dysfunction caused by angiotensin IIJulian D Widder
Emory University, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine and the Atlanta Veterans Administration Hospital, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 27:762-8. 2007..This can promotes thiol loss during states of increased glutathione oxidation. We investigated how MRP1 modulates blood pressure and vascular function during angiotensin II-induced hypertension...
Nuclear and cytoplasmic peroxiredoxin-1 differentially regulate NF-kappaB activitiesJason M Hansen
Department of Pediatrics, Emory School of Medicine, Emory University, 2015 Uppergate Drive 350, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Free Radic Biol Med 43:282-8. 2007..Such spatial resolution and protein-specific redox differences imply that the balance of peroxide generation/metabolism in microcompartments provides an important specific component of redox signaling...
Commensal bacteria modulate cullin-dependent signaling via generation of reactive oxygen speciesAmrita Kumar
Epithelial Pathobiology Unit, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
EMBO J 26:4457-66. 2007....
Inflammation is related to coronary flow reserve detected by positron emission tomography in asymptomatic male twinsViola Vaccarino
Department of Epidemiology, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
J Am Coll Cardiol 57:1271-9. 2011..This study sought to examine the relationship between inflammation and coronary microvascular function in asymptomatic individuals using positron emission tomography (PET) and assessment of coronary flow reserve (CFR)...
Regulation of glutathione redox status in lung and liver by conditioning regimens and keratinocyte growth factor in murine allogeneic bone marrow transplantationT R Ziegler
Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Transplantation 72:1354-62. 2001..Keratinocyte growth factor (KGF) ameliorates graft-versus-host disease (GVHD)-associated organ injury in murine BMT models...
Prevention of apoptosis by Bcl-2: release of cytochrome c from mitochondria blockedJ Yang
Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Science 275:1129-32. 1997..Overexpression of Bcl-2 prevented the efflux of cytochrome c from the mitochondria and the initiation of apoptosis. Thus, one possible role of Bcl-2 in prevention of apoptosis is to block cytochrome c release from mitochondria...
Altered carbohydrate, lipid, and xenobiotic metabolism by liver from rats flown on Cosmos 1887A H Merrill
Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322
FASEB J 4:95-100. 1990..These results support the earlier finding of differences in these parameters and suggest that altered hepatic function could be important during spaceflight and/or the postflight recovery period...
Mitochondrial dysfunction during anoxia and acute cell injuryD P Jones
Department of Biochemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Biochim Biophys Acta 1271:29-33. 1995....
Oxidation of nuclear thioredoxin during oxidative stressWalter H Watson
Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, 1510 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
FEBS Lett 543:144-7. 2003..Thus, the increase in nuclear Trx1 levels did not correspond to an increase in the overall reducing capacity of Trx1 in the nucleus...
Protection against oxidant-induced apoptosis by mitochondrial thioredoxin in SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cellsYan Chen
The Vanderbilt Eye Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 216:256-62. 2006..These data indicate that mtTrx controls the mitochondrial redox status independently of GSH and is a key component of the defensive mechanism against oxidative stress in cultured neuronal cells...
Nuclear and mitochondrial compartmentation of oxidative stress and redox signalingJason M Hansen
Department of Medicine and Clinical Biomarkers Laboratory, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Annu Rev Pharmacol Toxicol 46:215-34. 2006..The new methods are applicable to a broad range of experimental systems and their use will provide improved understanding of the pharmacologic and toxicologic actions of drugs and toxicants...
Dietary supplementation with orotate and uracil increases adaptive growth of jejunal mucosa after massive small bowel resection in ratsMary E Evans
Department of Medicine and the Center for Clinical and Molecular Nutrition, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr 29:315-20; discussion 320-1. 2005..Dietary supplementation with orotate and uracil represents a novel nutrition approach to enhance small-bowel mucosal adaptive growth and absorptive capacity in SBS...
The relationship between plasma levels of oxidized and reduced thiols and early atherosclerosis in healthy adultsSalman Ashfaq
Division of Cardiology, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Wichita, Kansas, USA
J Am Coll Cardiol 47:1005-11. 2006..This finding supports a role for oxidative stress in the pathogenesis of premature atherosclerosis, and its measurement may help in the early identification of asymptomatic subjects at risk of atherosclerotic disease...
Differential oxidation of thioredoxin-1, thioredoxin-2, and glutathione by metal ionsJason M Hansen
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, 615 Michael Street, 225 Whitehead Biomedical Research Building, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Free Radic Biol Med 40:138-45. 2006....
Glutamine inhibits cytokine-induced apoptosis in human colonic epithelial cells via the pyrimidine pathwayMary E Evans
Department of Medicine, Center for Clinical and Molecular Nutrition, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 289:G388-96. 2005..Our data also demonstrate the novel antiapoptotic effects of pyrimidine bases and their precursor orotate in these human intestinal cells...
Trophic and cytoprotective nutrition for intestinal adaptation, mucosal repair, and barrier functionThomas R Ziegler
Department of Medicine, Center for Clinical and Molecular Nutrition, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Annu Rev Nutr 23:229-61. 2003..Results of these investigations should define new nutritional methods for trophic and cytoprotective effects on the intestine in conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease, malnutrition, and short bowel syndrome...
The redox regulation of intermediary metabolism by a superoxide-aconitase rheostatJeffrey S Armstrong
Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Republic of Singapore
Bioessays 26:894-900. 2004..In this setting, the mitochondrial redox state influences metabolic decisions via a superoxide-aconitase rheostat...
Endothelial function and aminothiol biomarkers of oxidative stress in healthy adultsSalman Ashfaq
Division of Cardiology, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Wichita, USA
Hypertension 52:80-5. 2008....
Cysteine starvation activates the redox-dependent mitochondrial permeability transition in retinal pigment epithelial cellsJeffrey S Armstrong
Department of Biochemistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 45:4183-9. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: These results show that cysteine is a required component for normal GSH metabolism and protection against oxidative stress in hRPE cells...
HIV-1-induced pulmonary oxidative and nitrosative stress: exacerbated response to endotoxin administration in HIV-1 transgenic mouse modelBarbara A Jacob
Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Center for Clinical and Molecular Nutrition, Emory University School of Medicine, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 1670 Clairmont Rd, Atlanta, GA 30033, USA
Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 291:L811-9. 2006..These results indicate that HIV-1 proteins may increase pulmonary complications subsequent to a secondary infection by altering the lung redox potential...
Comparative effects of glucagon-like peptide-2 (GLP-2), growth hormone (GH), and keratinocyte growth factor (KGF) on markers of gut adaptation after massive small bowel resection in ratsNaohiro Washizawa
Department of Surgery, Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr 28:399-409. 2004..Future research should address the use of these agents in combination in short bowel syndrome...
Redox potential of human thioredoxin 1 and identification of a second dithiol/disulfide motifWalter H Watson
Department of Biochemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
J Biol Chem 278:33408-15. 2003....
Local glutathione redox status does not regulate ileal mucosal growth after massive small bowel resection in ratsJunqiang Tian
Nutrition and Health Science Program, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
J Nutr 137:320-5. 2007..Collectively, our in vivo data show that marked depletion of ileal GSH and oxidation of the GSH redox pool does not alter indices of ileal epithelial proliferation or SBR-induced ileal mucosal adaptive growth...
Oxidation of glutathione and cysteine in human plasma associated with smokingSiobhan E Moriarty
Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
Free Radic Biol Med 35:1582-8. 2003....
The Coenzyme Q10 analog decylubiquinone inhibits the redox-activated mitochondrial permeability transition: role of mitcohondrial [correction mitochondrial] complex IIIJeffrey S Armstrong
Department of Biochemistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117597, Singapore
J Biol Chem 278:49079-84. 2003....
Research Grants
- MITOCHONDRIA IN CHEMICAL-INDUCED APOPTOSISDean Jones; Fiscal Year: 2007..Aims 1 and 2 will substantially add to basic knowledge of human mtTrx and Aims 3 and 4 will define whether mtTrx has a central function in protection against chemical-induced toxicity. ..
- Nuclear and Cytoplasmic Redox in Oxidative StressDean Jones; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- Nuclear and Cytoplasmic Redox in Oxidative StressDean Jones; Fiscal Year: 2009....
- Thioredoxin-2 protection against mitochondrial oxidative toxicityDean P Jones; Fiscal Year: 2010..This is of considerable importance because therapeutic agents which eliminate reactive species could also disrupt normal signaling. ..
- Nuclear and Cytoplasmic Redox in Oxidative StressDean P Jones; Fiscal Year: 2010....
- Thioredoxin-2 protection against mitochondrial oxidative toxicityDean P Jones; Fiscal Year: 2011..This is of considerable importance because therapeutic agents which eliminate reactive species could also disrupt normal signaling. ..
- Metabolic effects of chemical interactions in toxicityDean Jones; Fiscal Year: 2005....
- Nuclear and Cytoplasmic Redox in Oxidative StressDean Jones; Fiscal Year: 2005....
- Metabolic analysis in human sulfur amino acid deficiencyDean Jones; Fiscal Year: 2005..g., 300 samples/day with a flow cell), results will show whether this approach could be useful for nutritional assessment of complex metabolic effects of SAA intake. ..
- MITOCHONDRIA IN CHEMICAL-INDUCED APOPTOSISDean Jones; Fiscal Year: 2001..These studies will clarify the role of mitochondria in chemical-induced cell death and provide important new information concerning the mechanistic basis for apoptotic cell death induced by mitochondrial toxicants. ..
- A metabolomic model of aging in the common marmosetDANIEL EDWARD LEE PROMISLOW; Fiscal Year: 2010..The acquired knowledge has the potential to explain causes of variation in traits of aging within individuals and also differences in aging among individuals in human populations. ..
