Antioxidants Used by Deinococcus Radiodurans and Implications for Antioxidant Drug Discovery

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In summary, it seems that the antioxidant defence system of D. radiodurans Antioxidants used by Deinococcus consists of several lines of antioxidants, including enzymes and non-enzymatic radiodurans and implications for small molecules, which is directly relevant to antioxidant drug discovery. Lipoic antioxidant drug discovery acid has been approved as an antioxidant drug, and therefore the other antioxidants used by D. radiodurans (that is, Mn(II) Hong-Yu Zhang, Xue-Juan Li, Na Gao and Ling-Ling Chen complexes and folates) are good start- ing points for finding novel antioxidant In his recent Opinion article (A new fact, the development of Mn(II)-containing drugs. perspective on radiation resistance based catalytic antioxidant drugs has attracted Hong-Yu Zhang is at the Institute of Bioinformatics and 5 on Deinococcus radiodurans. Nature Rev. much attention in recent years . However, National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Microbiol. 7, 237–245 (2009))1, Michael as D. radiodurans contains a large number College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Daly proposes that high levels of manganese of metabolites, we speculate that other Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, P. R. China. can protect proteins from the reactive compounds might also be responsible for the Xue-Juan Li, Na Gao and Ling-Ling Chen are at the oxygen species (ROS) that are produced antioxidant defence of D. radiodurans. Shandong Provincial Research Center for Bioinformatic Engineering and Technique, Center for Advanced Study, during irradiation. Owing to the close link Through searching the Kyoto Shandong University of Technology, between reactive oxygen species and various Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes Zibo 255049, P. R. China. diseases, there is continuing interest in find- (KEGG)6 and analysing the genome of Correspondence to H.Y.Z. 7 ing antioxidants as preventive or therapeutic D. radiodurans , the biosynthetic pathways e-mail: [email protected] drugs. According to the MDL Drug Data for some common antioxidant metabolites Report (MDDR)2, to date, seven antioxidant (for example, carotenoids, lipoic acid and 1. Daly, M. J. A new perspective on radiation resistance based on Deinococcus radiodurans. Nature Rev. drugs have been launched, most of which folates) could be identified. It is interesting Microbiol. 7, 237–245 (2009). (lipoic acid, policosanol, acetylcysteine, ide- to note that the mutant of D. radiodurans 2. MDL Drug Data Report (MDDR) (MDL Information Systems, San Leandro, 2004). benone and probucol) are directly or indi- that fails to synthesize carotenoids was more 3. Wang, P. & Schellhorn, H. E. 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