Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

Global profiling of distinct cysteine redox forms reveals wide-ranging redox regulation in C. elegans

  • Jin Meng,
  • Ling Fu,
  • Keke Liu,
  • Caiping Tian,
  • Ziyun Wu,
  • Youngeun Jung,
  • Renan B. Ferreira,
  • Kate S. Carroll,
  • T. Keith Blackwell,
  • Jing Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21686-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Reversible cysteine oxidative modifications have emerged as important mechanisms that alter protein function. Here the authors globally assess the cysteine reactivity and an array of cysteine oxidative modifications in C. elegans, providing insights into redox signaling at the organismal level.