Deciphering the safeguarding role of cysteine residues in p53 against H2O2-induced oxidation using high-resolution native mass spectrometry

Abstract The transcription factor p53 is exquisitely sensitive and selective to a broad variety of cellular environments. Several studies have reported that oxidative stress weakens the p53-DNA binding affinity for certain promoters depending on the oxidation mechanism. Despite this body of work, th...

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Main Authors: Manuel David Peris-Díaz, Artur Krężel, Perdita Barran
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Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-01-01
Series:Communications Chemistry
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42004-024-01395-w
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description Abstract The transcription factor p53 is exquisitely sensitive and selective to a broad variety of cellular environments. Several studies have reported that oxidative stress weakens the p53-DNA binding affinity for certain promoters depending on the oxidation mechanism. Despite this body of work, the precise mechanisms by which the physiologically relevant DNA-p53 tetramer complex senses cellular stresses caused by H2O2 are still unknown. Here, we employed native mass spectrometry (MS) and ion mobility (IM)-MS coupled to chemical labelling and H2O2-induced oxidation to examine the mechanism of redox regulation of the p53-p21 complex. Our approach has found that two reactive cysteines in p53 protect against H2O2-induced oxidation by forming reversible sulfenates.
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spelling doaj-art-23c637bc329c46e2bd346655b085906b2025-01-19T12:13:12ZengNature PortfolioCommunications Chemistry2399-36692025-01-018111410.1038/s42004-024-01395-wDeciphering the safeguarding role of cysteine residues in p53 against H2O2-induced oxidation using high-resolution native mass spectrometryManuel David Peris-Díaz0Artur Krężel1Perdita Barran2Michael Barber Centre for Collaborative Mass Spectrometry, Manchester Institute of BiotechnologyDepartment of Chemical Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wrocław, F. Joliot-Curie 14aMichael Barber Centre for Collaborative Mass Spectrometry, Manchester Institute of BiotechnologyAbstract The transcription factor p53 is exquisitely sensitive and selective to a broad variety of cellular environments. Several studies have reported that oxidative stress weakens the p53-DNA binding affinity for certain promoters depending on the oxidation mechanism. Despite this body of work, the precise mechanisms by which the physiologically relevant DNA-p53 tetramer complex senses cellular stresses caused by H2O2 are still unknown. Here, we employed native mass spectrometry (MS) and ion mobility (IM)-MS coupled to chemical labelling and H2O2-induced oxidation to examine the mechanism of redox regulation of the p53-p21 complex. Our approach has found that two reactive cysteines in p53 protect against H2O2-induced oxidation by forming reversible sulfenates.https://doi.org/10.1038/s42004-024-01395-w
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Deciphering the safeguarding role of cysteine residues in p53 against H2O2-induced oxidation using high-resolution native mass spectrometry
Communications Chemistry
title Deciphering the safeguarding role of cysteine residues in p53 against H2O2-induced oxidation using high-resolution native mass spectrometry
title_full Deciphering the safeguarding role of cysteine residues in p53 against H2O2-induced oxidation using high-resolution native mass spectrometry
title_fullStr Deciphering the safeguarding role of cysteine residues in p53 against H2O2-induced oxidation using high-resolution native mass spectrometry
title_full_unstemmed Deciphering the safeguarding role of cysteine residues in p53 against H2O2-induced oxidation using high-resolution native mass spectrometry
title_short Deciphering the safeguarding role of cysteine residues in p53 against H2O2-induced oxidation using high-resolution native mass spectrometry
title_sort deciphering the safeguarding role of cysteine residues in p53 against h2o2 induced oxidation using high resolution native mass spectrometry
url https://doi.org/10.1038/s42004-024-01395-w
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