Reactome | Intracellular oxygen transport

Intracellular oxygen transport

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R-HSA-8981607

DOI

10.3180/R-HSA-8981607.1

Type

Pathway

Species

Homo sapiens

Compartment

cytosol

ReviewStatus

5/5

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Globins are heme-containing proteins that reversibly bind molecular oxygen. Humans contain at least 5 types of globins: hemoglobins, myoglobin, cytoglobin, neuroglobin, and androglobin (reviewed in Burmester et al. 2014). Myoglobin, neuroglobin, and cytoglobin are cytosolic globins with similar affinities for oxygen (reviewed in Hankeln et al. 2005). Androglobin is a more distantly related globin of uncertain function that is expressed in testes (Hoogewijs et al. 2012). Myoglobin is predominantly expressed in muscle tissue (reviewed in Helbo et al. 2013), neuroglobin is expressed in neurons, and cytoglobin is expressed in connective tissue fibroblasts and smooth muscle cells (reviewed in Pesce et al. 2002, Hankeln et al. 2004, Ascenzi et al. 2016). Whereas myoglobin contains pentacoordinated heme iron, neuroglobin and cytoglobin contain hexacoordinated heme iron: the iron atom is bound by 4 nitrogen atoms of heme and 2 histidine residues of the globin. Binding by one of the histidines is reversible, which allows the iron atom to bind various ligands such as molecular oxygen, carbon monoxide, and nitric oxide (reviewed in Kakar et al. 2010). Neuroglobin may function in oxygen homeostasis, however the importance of its oxygen-binding activity is unclear (reviewed in Pesce et al. 2002, Hankeln et al. 2005). Cytoglobin may function in nitric oxide metabolism (Thuy et al. 2016, Liu et al. 2017). Globins can also regulate oxygen homeostasis via reactions with nitric oxide (NO), a vasodilator. Oxygenated globins scavenge NO by oxidation while deoxygenated globins can act as a nitrite reductase to produce NO (reviewed in Hendgen-Cotta et al. 2014, Tejero and Gladwin 2014).

Literature References

PubMed ID	Title	Journal	Year
15804831	The cellular and subcellular localization of neuroglobin and cytoglobin -- a clue to their function? Wystub, S, Hankeln, T, Burmester, T, Laufs, T, Saaler-Reinhardt, S, Schmidt, M, Reuss, S, Gerlach, F	IUBMB Life	2004
27146058	Absence of cytoglobin promotes multiple organ abnormalities in aged mice Yoshizato, K, Van Thuy, TT, Kawada, N, Thuy, le TT, Matsumoto, Y, Hai, H, Ikura, Y	Sci Rep	2016
15598495	Neuroglobin and cytoglobin in search of their role in the vertebrate globin family Nevo, E, Avivi, A, Bolognesi, M, Saaler-Reinhardt, S, Marden, MC, Fuchs, C, De Sanctis, D, Gerlach, F, Wystub, S, Hankeln, T, Roesner, A, Burmester, T, Haberkamp, M, Ebner, B, Kiger, L, Schmidt, M, Dewilde, S, Reuss, S, Weich, B, Moens, L, Fago, A, Weber, RE, Laufs, TL	J. Inorg. Biochem.	2005
28393874	Cytoglobin regulates blood pressure and vascular tone through nitric oxide metabolism in the vascular wall Thuy, LT, El-Mahdy, MA, Boslett, J, Varadharaj, S, Kawada, N, Zhou, D, Liu, X, Ismail, RS, Hemann, C, Little, SC, Abdelghany, TM, Zweier, JL	Nat Commun	2017
24477516	The globin superfamily: functions in nitric oxide formation and decay Gladwin, MT, Tejero, J	Biol. Chem.	2014
23388387	Expression patterns and adaptive functional diversity of vertebrate myoglobins Fago, A, Weber, RE, Helbo, S	Biochim. Biophys. Acta	2013
22115833	Androglobin: a chimeric globin in metazoans that is preferentially expressed in Mammalian testes Hankeln, T, Vinogradov, SN, Burmester, T, Storz, JF, Fabrizius, A, Germani, F, Ebner, B, Hoffmann, FG, Dewilde, S, Moens, L, Hoogewijs, D	Mol. Biol. Evol.	2012
24859377	Myoglobin functions in the heart Hendgen-Cotta, UB, Rassaf, T, Kelm, M	Free Radic. Biol. Med.	2014
24811692	Function and evolution of vertebrate globins Hankeln, T, Burmester, T	Acta Physiol (Oxf)	2014
12475928	Neuroglobin and cytoglobin. Fresh blood for the vertebrate globin family Hankeln, T, Bocedi, A, Ascenzi, P, Burmester, T, Pesce, A, Bolognesi, M, Dewilde, S, Moens, L	EMBO Rep.	2002
20933319	Structure and reactivity of hexacoordinate hemoglobins Fabian, M, Hargrove, MS, Hoffman, FG, Kakar, S, Storz, JF	Biophys. Chem.	2010
27825818	Neuroglobin: From structure to function in health and disease Marino, M, Leboffe, L, Ascenzi, P, Nuzzo, MT, Brunori, M, Fiocchetti, M, di Masi, A	Mol. Aspects Med.	2016