scispace - formally typeset
Open AccessJournal ArticleDOI

Protein and nucleotide damage by glyoxal and methylglyoxal in physiological systems - role in ageing and disease

TLDR
It is appreciated that glyoxalase 1 protects against dicarbonyl modifications of the proteome, genome and lipome and represents part of the enzymatic defence against glycation.
Abstract
Glycation of proteins, nucleotides and basic phospholipids by glyoxal and methylglyoxal--physiological substrates of glyoxalase 1--is potentially damaging to the proteome, genome and lipidome. Glyoxalase 1 suppresses glycation by these alpha-oxoaldehyde metabolites and thereby represents part of the enzymatic defence against glycation. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi pioneered and struggled to understand the physiological function of methylglyoxal and the glyoxalase system. We now appreciate that glyoxalase 1 protects against dicarbonyl modifications of the proteome, genome and lipome. Latest research suggests there are functional modifications of this process--implying a role in cell signalling, ageing and disease.

read more

Content maybe subject to copyright    Report

Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Mitochondria-Targeted Triphenylphosphonium-Based Compounds: Syntheses, Mechanisms of Action, and Therapeutic and Diagnostic Applications

TL;DR: The physicochemical basis for mitochondrial accumulation of lipophilic cations, synthetic chemistry strategies to target compounds to mitochondria, mitochondrial probes, and sensors, and examples of mitochondrial targeting of bioactive compounds are described.
Journal ArticleDOI

Glutathione catalysis and the reaction mechanisms of glutathione-dependent enzymes.

TL;DR: This comprehensive review summarizes fundamental principles of glutathione catalysis and compares the structures and mechanisms ofglutathione-dependent enzymes, including glutathion reductase, glutaredoxins, glutATHione peroxidases, peroxiredoxinases, glyoxalases 1 and 2, glutthione transferases and MAPEG.
Journal ArticleDOI

Methylglyoxal, the dark side of glycolysis

TL;DR: A main emerging concept is that these two neural cell types have different and energetically adapted glyoxalase defense mechanisms which may serve as protective mechanism against methylglyoxal-induced cellular damage.
Journal ArticleDOI

Hyperglycemia and glycation in diabetic complications.

TL;DR: The mechanism of glycation and of AGEs formation and the role of hyperglycemia, A GEs, and oxidative stress in the pathophysiology of diabetic complications are summarized.
Journal ArticleDOI

Methylglyoxal, glyoxalase 1 and the dicarbonyl proteome.

TL;DR: Glyoxalase 1 and aldo–keto reductase 1B1 metabolise >99% MG to innocuous products and thereby protect the proteome, providing an enzymatic defence against MG-mediated glycation.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Protein degradation and protection against misfolded or damaged proteins

TL;DR: A full understanding of the pathogenesis of the protein-folding diseases will require greater knowledge of how misfolded proteins are recognized and selectively degraded.
Journal ArticleDOI

Formation of glyoxal, methylglyoxal and 3-deoxyglucosone in the glycation of proteins by glucose.

TL;DR: Alpha-Oxoaldehydes were formed in early glycation from the degradation of glucose and Schiff's base adduct, which suggests that short periods of hyperglycaemia, as occur in impaired glucose tolerance, may be sufficient to increase the concentrations of alpha-oxoaldeHydes in vivo.
Journal ArticleDOI

Effect of collagen turnover on the accumulation of advanced glycation end products.

TL;DR: First experimental evidence that protein turnover is a major determinant in AGE accumulation in different collagen types is provided, thereby providing the first reasonable estimates of the half-lives of these collagens.
Journal ArticleDOI

Benfotiamine blocks three major pathways of hyperglycemic damage and prevents experimental diabetic retinopathy

TL;DR: In this article, the lipid-soluble thiamine derivative benfotiamine can inhibit three major biochemical pathways simultaneously, which might be clinically useful in preventing the development and progression of diabetic complications.
Journal ArticleDOI

N-epsilon-(carboxyethyl)lysine, a product of the chemical modification of proteins by methylglyoxal, increases with age in human lens proteins.

TL;DR: Levels of CML and CEL are proposed to provide an index of glyoxal and methylglyoxal concentrations in tissues, alterations in glutathione homoeostasis and dicarbonyl metabolism in disease, and sources of advanced glycation end-products in tissue proteins in aging and disease.
Related Papers (5)