Nature Communications (May 2021)

Sulfide catabolism ameliorates hypoxic brain injury

  • Eizo Marutani,
  • Masanobu Morita,
  • Shuichi Hirai,
  • Shinichi Kai,
  • Robert M. H. Grange,
  • Yusuke Miyazaki,
  • Fumiaki Nagashima,
  • Lisa Traeger,
  • Aurora Magliocca,
  • Tomoaki Ida,
  • Tetsuro Matsunaga,
  • Daniel R. Flicker,
  • Benjamin Corman,
  • Naohiro Mori,
  • Yumiko Yamazaki,
  • Annabelle Batten,
  • Rebecca Li,
  • Tomohiro Tanaka,
  • Takamitsu Ikeda,
  • Akito Nakagawa,
  • Dmitriy N. Atochin,
  • Hideshi Ihara,
  • Benjamin A. Olenchock,
  • Xinggui Shen,
  • Motohiro Nishida,
  • Kenjiro Hanaoka,
  • Christopher G. Kevil,
  • Ming Xian,
  • Donald B. Bloch,
  • Takaaki Akaike,
  • Allyson G. Hindle,
  • Hozumi Motohashi,
  • Fumito Ichinose

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23363-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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The brain is sensitive to oxygen deprivation. Here, the authors show in experimental animals that sensitivity to hypoxia is inversely related to the level of sulfide:quinone oxidoreductast (SQOR) and the capacity to catabolize sulfide in the brain.