Msrs (methionine sulfoxide reductases), MsrA and MsrB, are repair enzymes that reduce methionine sulfoxide residues in oxidatively damaged proteins to methionine residues in a stereospecific manner. These enzymes protect cells from oxidative stress and have been implicated in delaying the aging process and progression of neurodegenerative diseases. In recent years, significant efforts have been...

Methionine sulfoxide reductases A and B (MsrA and MsrB) have been known to be thioredoxin (Trx)-dependent enzymes that catalyze the reduction of methionine sulfoxide in a stereospecific manner. This work reports that glutaredoxin, another major thiol-disulfide oxidoreductase, can serve as a reductant for both MsrA and MsrB. Glutaredoxins efficiently reduced 1-Cys MsrA lacking a resolving Cys, w...

Dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) has long been known to support anaerobic respiration in a few species of basically aerobic extremely halophilic euryarchaea living hypersaline lakes. Recently, it also shown be utilized as an additional electron acceptor sulfur-reducing haloarchaea. Here we investigated whether haloarchaea would capable with other two sulfoxides, methionine sulfoxide (MSO) and tetrameth...

The enzyme peptide methionine sulfoxide reductase (MsrA), the product of the msrA gene, catalyzes the reduction of methionine sulfoxide residues in proteins to methionine (1, 3, 4). During aerobic metabolism, methionine in proteins may be oxidized to methionine sulfoxide by biological reagents such as hydrogen peroxide, hydroxyl radicals, and hypochlorite and superoxide ions (reviewed in refere...