Background: Thioredoxin (TRX), a 12-kDa oxidoreductase enzyme, is well known to be a redox-active protein that regulates reactive oxidative metabolism. TRX is also accepted to be a protein with anti-inflammatory effects and reported to attenuate the development of allergic airway inflammatory diseases such as allergic rhinitis (AR) and asthma. Although histamine H1 receptor antagonists are freq...

A growing number of processes throughout biology are regulated by redox via thiol-disulfide exchange. This mechanism is particularly widespread in plants, where almost 200 proteins have been linked to thioredoxin (Trx), a widely distributed small regulatory disulfide protein. The current study extends regulation by Trx to amyloplasts, organelles prevalent in heterotrophic plant tissues that, am...

We show that maintenance but not initiation of engrailed (en) gene expression in the Drosophila embryo requires trithorax (trx), which is also required to maintain stable long-term expression of the homeotic genes throughout the development. Like the homeotic genes, en expression is dependent on trx in only a subset of embryonic cells normally expressing en, including specific cells in the nerv...

Thioredoxin-1 (Trx-1) is a small redox protein that is overexpressed in many human tumors, where it is associated with aggressive tumor growth and decreased patient survival. Trx-1 is secreted by tumor cells and is present at increased levels in the plasma of cancer patients. PX-12 is an irreversible inhibitor of Trx-1 currently in clinical development as an antitumor agent. We have used SELDI-...

OBJECTIVE Oxidative stress induced by free fatty acids contributes to the development of cardiovascular diseases in patients with metabolic syndrome. Reducing oxidative stress may attenuate these pathogenic processes. Activation of AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) has been reported to reduce intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels. The thioredoxin (Trx) system is a major antioxida...

Increasing evidence indicates that intracellular redox status modulates the activity of various transcriptional factors, including nuclear factor (NF)-kappa B and activator protein-1. Our laboratory has been interested in characterizing the role thioredoxin (TRX) plays in regulating cellular redox status in airway epithelium. TRX is a small, ubiquitous protein with two redox-active half-cystein...

Thioredoxin (TRX), a disulfide-reducing intracellular dithiol enzyme, is synthesized by both normal liver cells and the hepatocarcinoma cell line HepG2. Only the former, however, secrete abundant TRX extracellularly. When cultured in mild reducing conditions, HepG2 cells but not normal hepatocytes increase the rate of TRX secretion and undergo growth inhibition accompanied by morphological chan...

2-Cys peroxiredoxins (Prxs) play important roles in the protection of chloroplast proteins from oxidative damage. Arabidopsis NADPH-dependent thioredoxin reductase isotype C (AtNTRC) was identified as efficient electron donor for chloroplastic 2-Cys Prx-A. There are three isotypes (A, B, and C) of thioredoxin reductase (TrxR) in Arabidopsis. AtNTRA contains only TrxR domain, but AtNTRC consists...

BACKGROUND Thioredoxin (TRX) is a small protein with redox-regulating functions. Although TRX is known to be induced in response to various forms of oxidative stress, including ischemia/reperfusion injury, the induction and the specific role of this protein in the kidney have not been fully investigated. METHODS Renal ischemia/reperfusion was induced by the clipping and release of renal arter...

AIMS Ischaemic cardiac injury is significantly increased in diabetic patients, but its underlying mechanisms remain incompletely understood. The current study attempted to identify new molecular mechanisms potentially contributive to hyperglycaemic-exaggeration of myocardial ischaemic injury. METHODS AND RESULTS Adult mouse cardiomyocytes were cultured in normal-glucose (NG, 5.5 mM) or high-g...