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[[Image:OxyR.png|thumb|600px|left|Activation of OxyR. (a) Oxidation of the H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> sensitive Cysteine residues activate gene transcription. (b) Reaction mechanism of OxyR H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> sensitivity ]]
[[Image:OxyR.png|thumb|600px|left|Activation of OxyR. (a) Oxidation of the H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> sensitive Cysteine residues activate gene transcription. (b) Reaction mechanism of OxyR H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> sensitivity ]]
<br><b>Why is H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> poisonous?<b>
<br><b>Why is H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> poisonous?<b>
<br>Environmental H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> is primarily generated as a metabolism by-product and as defense mechanism of plants, animals and bacteria to other microbes. <ref>[http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4275862.pdf Mehdy, (1994): Active Oxygen Species in Plant Defense against Pathogens. Plant Physiology 105(2):467-472.]</ref> <ref>[http://physrev.physiology.org/content/87/1/245.short Bedard and Krause (2007): The NOX Family of ROS-Generating NADPH Oxidases: Physiology and Pathophysiology. Physiological Reviews 87(1):245-313.]</ref>   <ref>[http://jb.asm.org/content/186/7/2046.full.pdf Seki et al. (2004): Hydrogen Peroxide Production in <i>Streptococcus pyogenes</i>: Involvement of Lactate Oxidase and Coupling with Aerobic Utilization of Lactate. Journal of Bacteriology 186(7):2046–2051.]</ref> Because its chemical structure is similar to that of water and has no charge, H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> can easily penetrate the membrane. Once it enters the cell, H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> damages the cell components through the Fenton Reaction in which H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> oxidizes Fe<sup>2+</sup> ion, generating one Fe<sup>3+</sup> ion and one hydroxyl radical. Free hydroxyl radicals can further react with lipids, nucleic acids and the disulfide bonds in proteins, which are all critical cellular components (Machlin and Bendich, 1987). For example, guanine is one of the most vulnerable targets to hydroxyl radical because of its small reduction potential.  The resulting product is often highly mutagenic 8-hydroxyguanine, because it is able to base pair with adenine such a way that allows it to escape from the DNA mismatch detection system (Hogg et al., 2005). The Fenton reaction also impedes the function of Fe2+-dependent enzymes that are distributed in various cellular processes (Imlay et al., 1988).   
<br>Environmental H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> is primarily generated as a metabolism by-product and as defense mechanism of plants, animals and bacteria to other microbes. <ref>[http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4275862.pdf Mehdy, (1994): Active Oxygen Species in Plant Defense against Pathogens. Plant Physiology 105(2):467-472.]</ref> <ref>[http://physrev.physiology.org/content/87/1/245.short Bedard and Krause (2007): The NOX Family of ROS-Generating NADPH Oxidases: Physiology and Pathophysiology. Physiological Reviews 87(1):245-313.]</ref> <ref>[http://jb.asm.org/content/186/7/2046.full.pdf Seki et al. (2004): Hydrogen Peroxide Production in <i>Streptococcus pyogenes</i>: Involvement of Lactate Oxidase and Coupling with Aerobic Utilization of Lactate. Journal of Bacteriology 186(7):2046–2051.]</ref> Because its chemical structure is similar to that of water and has no charge, H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> can easily penetrate the membrane. Once it enters the cell, H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> damages the cell components through the Fenton Reaction in which H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> oxidizes Fe<sup>2+</sup> ion, generating one Fe<sup>3+</sup> ion and one hydroxyl radical. Free hydroxyl radicals can further react with lipids, nucleic acids and the disulfide bonds in proteins, which are all critical cellular components. <ref>[http://www.fasebj.org/content/1/6/441.full.pdf Machlin and Bendich (1987): Free radical tissue damage: protective role of antioxidant nutrients. The FASEB Journal 1(6):441-445.]</ref> For example, guanine is one of the most vulnerable targets to hydroxyl radical because of its small reduction potential.  The resulting product is often highly mutagenic 8-hydroxyguanine, because it is able to base pair with adenine such a way that allows it to escape from the DNA mismatch detection system. <ref>[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959440X05000151 Hogg et al. (2005): Bumps in the road: how replicative DNA polymerases see DNA damage. Current opinion in structural biology 15(1): 86-93.]</ref> The Fenton reaction also impedes the function of Fe<sup>2+</sup>-dependent enzymes that are distributed in various cellular processes.<ref>[http://science.sciencemag.org/content/240/4852/640 Imlay et al. (1988): Toxic DNA damage by hydrogen peroxide through the Fenton reaction in vivo and in vitro. Science 240(4852): 640-642.]</ref>  


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Overview


By Jiayu Chen


NOX2 complex produces anti-microbial ROS, Yang et al.

Bacteria live in a world full of toxic reactive oxygen species (ROS), including hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), superoxide (O2-), and hydroxyl radicals. ROS can cause severe damage to all kinds of cell components, including nucleic acids, lipids and proteins [1]. These highly reactive species are generated endogenously by accidental autoxidation of flavoproteins, a group of non-respiratory redox enzymes. [2] Thus, aerobic bacteria have evolved to maintain high concentration of enzymes that keep intracellular ROS below a lethal level. However, various conditions are known to increase these species above such threshold, inflicting oxidative stress to the bacteria, a phenomenon called “oxidative burst.” [3] One of the major scenario is when bacteria encounter ROS generated by the immune system of their host as a defensive weapon. In human, phagocytes including neutrophils use NADPH oxidase 2 (NOX2) complex as one of the major enzyme mediating the immune response by generating antimicrobial ROS. The resultant ROS would be secreted either outside of the cell as a trap to kill bacteria, or into phagolysosome where internalized bacteria would be degraded. Another situation that may happen during bacterial infection is the ROS generated by the mitochondria. Such defensive mechanism is mediated by many signaling molecule in the Toll pathways including several Toll-like receptors (TLRs), tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated factor 6 (TRAF6) and evolutionarily conserved signaling intermediate in Toll pathways (ECSIT).

Anti-bacterial Mitochondrial ROS, Yang et al.

The activation of Toll pathways resulted in increased cellular ROS as well as anti-bacterial pro-inflammatory cytokine reaction in the nucleus. Pro-inflammatory Th1 cytokine IFN-γ is also involved as a transcriptional regulator via activation of estrogen-related receptor α (ERRα) and PPARγ-coactivator-1β (PGC-1β) in the nucleus. Such interaction induces the genes that encode mitochondrial respiratory chain machinery and thus increase cellular ROS concentration. [4]


Therefore, bacteria have developed defensive systems to deal with such situations. One mechanism is ROS inducible transcriptional factors that regulate gene expression of a variety of enzymes to respond to the oxidative stress. Three redox-sensitive transcription factors in bacteria have been intensively studied: OxyR and PerR against H2O2, and SoxR against O2- [5].
OxyR is induced by H2O2 and activated by reversible disulfide bond formation in its active site. [6] OxyR is widely distributed in Gram-negative bacteria, such as E. coli. The binding of OxyR to DNA generally turns on the gene expression of a large range of oxidative stress defense enzymes. [7] Recent research also has shown that Gram-negative bacteria Vibrio vulnificus, facultative aerobes, contain two OxyR-type regulators with similar sensory mechanism but different sensitivity in order to fine-tune the expression of genes against H2O2 pressure.[8]
PerR is the equivalent H2O2 sensor protein in many Gram-positive bacteria, such as Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus subtilis. When PerR is in its reduced form, its binding to DNA generally serves as an inhibitor of the expression of target genes. PerR is activated by oxidation of its regulatory metal, either Fe2+ or Mn2+, which leads to conformational change in the protein and dissociation from DNA, thus relieving the inhibition and initiating transcription of H2O2 defensive genes. [9] [10]
SoxR is conserved widely in both proteobacteria and actinobacteria with an O2- sensitive metal complex in its active site. The binding of SoxR to DNA induces the transcription of a secondary transcription factor, SoxS, which activates a group of enzymes suppressing the level of O2-. [11] [12] [13]

Defending against hydrogen peroxide (H2O2)

Activation of OxyR. (a) Oxidation of the H2O2 sensitive Cysteine residues activate gene transcription. (b) Reaction mechanism of OxyR H2O2 sensitivity


Why is H2O2 poisonous?
Environmental H2O2 is primarily generated as a metabolism by-product and as defense mechanism of plants, animals and bacteria to other microbes. [14] [15] [16] Because its chemical structure is similar to that of water and has no charge, H2O2 can easily penetrate the membrane. Once it enters the cell, H2O2 damages the cell components through the Fenton Reaction in which H2O2 oxidizes Fe2+ ion, generating one Fe3+ ion and one hydroxyl radical. Free hydroxyl radicals can further react with lipids, nucleic acids and the disulfide bonds in proteins, which are all critical cellular components. [17] For example, guanine is one of the most vulnerable targets to hydroxyl radical because of its small reduction potential. The resulting product is often highly mutagenic 8-hydroxyguanine, because it is able to base pair with adenine such a way that allows it to escape from the DNA mismatch detection system. [18] The Fenton reaction also impedes the function of Fe2+-dependent enzymes that are distributed in various cellular processes.[19]















Section 2

Include some current research, with at least one figure showing data.


Structure of PerR in Bacillus subtilis. (a) holoenzyme (b) demetallated (Manganese removed) enzyme. The orange balls are Zn and the purple ones are Mn

























Section 3

Include some current research, with at least one figure showing data.


Overall structure of the SoxR–DNA complex in E. coli. The SoxR dimer is shown in a ribbon representation and the DNA fragment appears in a stick model. The DNA-binding domain, dimerization helix, and Fe-S cluster binding domain are shown in blue, magenta, and yellow, respectively. The two iron and two sulfur atoms of the [2Fe-2S] cluster are represented with brown and green spheres, respectively. Watanabe et al., 2008.






















Section 4

Conclusion

References

  1. ↑ Halliwell (2006): Reactive Species and Antioxidants. Redox Biology Is a Fundamental Theme of Aerobic Life. Plant Physiology 141(2):312–322.
  2. ↑ Seaver and Imlay (2004): Are Respiratory Enzymes the Primary Sources of Intracellular Hydrogen Peroxide? The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 279:48742-48750.
  3. ↑ Apostol et al. (1989): Rapid Stimulation of an Oxidative Burst during Elicitation of Cultured Plant Cells: Role in Defense and Signal Transduction—Commentary. Plant Physiology, 90:109–116.
  4. ↑ Reviewed by Yang et al.(2013): Reactive oxygen species in the immune system. International Reviews of Immunology 32(3):249-70.
  5. ↑ Imaly, J.A. (2015): Transcription factors that defend bacteria against reactive oxygen species 2015. Annual Review of Microbiology 69:93–108.
  6. ↑ Choi et al. (2013): Structural Basis of the Redox Switch in the OxyR Transcription Factor. Cell 105(1):103-113.
  7. ↑ Zheng et al. (1998): DNA Microarray-Mediated Transcriptional Profiling of the Escherichia coli Response to Hydrogen Peroxide. Journal of Bacteriology 183(15): 4562-4570.
  8. ↑ Kim et al. (2014): Distinct characteristics of OxyR2, a new OxyR-type regulator, ensuring expression of Peroxiredoxin 2 detoxifying low levels of hydrogen peroxide in Vibrio vulnificus. Molecular Microbiology 93(5):992–1009.
  9. ↑ Ji et al.(2015): Staphylococcus aureus PerR Is a Hypersensitive Hydrogen Peroxide Sensor using Iron-mediated Histidine Oxidation. The Journal of Biological Chemistry 290:20374-20386.
  10. ↑ Lee and Helmann (2006): The PerR transcription factor senses H2O2 by metal-catalysed histidine oxidation. Nature 440:363-367.
  11. ↑ Greenberg et al. (1990): Positive control of a global antioxidant defense regulon activated by superoxide-generating agents in Escherichia coli. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 87: 6181-6185.
  12. ↑ Tsaneva and Weiss, (1990): soxR, a locus governing a superoxide response regulon in Escherichia coli K-12. Journal of Bacteriology 172(8):4197-205.
  13. ↑ Blanchard et al. (2007): Rapid Changes in Gene Expression Dynamics in Response to Superoxide Reveal SoxRS-Dependent and Independent Transcriptional Networks. PLoS ONE 2(11): e1186.
  14. ↑ Mehdy, (1994): Active Oxygen Species in Plant Defense against Pathogens. Plant Physiology 105(2):467-472.
  15. ↑ Bedard and Krause (2007): The NOX Family of ROS-Generating NADPH Oxidases: Physiology and Pathophysiology. Physiological Reviews 87(1):245-313.
  16. ↑ Seki et al. (2004): Hydrogen Peroxide Production in Streptococcus pyogenes: Involvement of Lactate Oxidase and Coupling with Aerobic Utilization of Lactate. Journal of Bacteriology 186(7):2046–2051.
  17. ↑ Machlin and Bendich (1987): Free radical tissue damage: protective role of antioxidant nutrients. The FASEB Journal 1(6):441-445.
  18. ↑ Hogg et al. (2005): Bumps in the road: how replicative DNA polymerases see DNA damage. Current opinion in structural biology 15(1): 86-93.
  19. ↑ Imlay et al. (1988): Toxic DNA damage by hydrogen peroxide through the Fenton reaction in vivo and in vitro. Science 240(4852): 640-642.



Authored for BIOL 238 Microbiology, taught by Joan Slonczewski, 2016, Kenyon College.

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