ER Oxidoreductin

ER Oxidoreductin

ER oxidoreductin 1 (Ero1) is an oxidoreductase enzyme that catalyses the formation and isomerization of protein disulfide bonds in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) of eukaryotes.cite journal |author=Frand AR, Cuozzo JW, Kaiser CA |title=Pathways for protein disulphide bond formation |journal=Trends Cell Biol. |volume=10 |issue=5 |pages=203–10 |year=2000 |pmid=10754564 |doi=10.1016/S0962-8924(00)01745-1] cite journal |author=Frand AR, Kaiser CA |title=Two pairs of conserved cysteines are required for the oxidative activity of Ero1p in protein disulfide bond formation in the endoplasmic reticulum |journal=Mol. Biol. Cell |volume=11 |issue=9 |pages=2833–43 |year=2000 |pmid=10982384] ER Oxidoreductin 1 (Ero1) is a conserved, luminal, glycoprotein that is tightly associated with the ER membrane, and is essential for the oxidation of protein dithiols. Since disulfide bond formation is an oxidative process, the major pathway of its catalysis has evolved to utilise oxidoreductases, which become reduced during the thiol-disulfide exchange reactions that oxidise the cysteine thiol groups of nascent polypeptides. Ero1 is required for the introduction of oxidising equivalents into the ER and their direct transfer to protein disulfide isomerase (PDI), thereby ensuring the correct folding and assembly of proteins that contain disulfide bonds in their native state.

Homologues of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Ero1 proteins have been found in all eukaryotic organisms examined, and contain seven cysteine residues that are absolutely conserved, including three that form the sequence Cys-X-X-Cys-X-X-Cys (where X can be any residue).

The mechanism of thiol-disulfide exchange between oxidoreductases

The mechanism of thiol-disulfide exchange between oxidoreductases is understood to begin with the nucleophilic attack on the sulfur atoms of a disulfide bond in the oxidised partner, by a thiolate anion derived from a reactive cysteine in a reduced partner. This generates mixed disulfide intermediates, and is followed by a second, this time intramolecular, nucleophilic attack by the remaining thiolate anion in the formerly reduced partner, to liberate both oxidoreductases. The balance of evidence discussed thus far supports a model in which oxidising equivalents are sequentially transferred from Ero1 via a thiol-disulfide exchange reaction to PDI, with PDI then undergoing a thiol-disulfide exchange with the nascent polypeptide, thereby enabling the formation of disulfide bonds within the nascent polypeptide.

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