TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schröder, Katrin
A1  - Weißmann, Norbert
A1  - Brandes, Ralf
T1  - Organizers and activators : Cytosolic Nox proteins impacting on vascular function
T2  - Free radical biology and medicine
N2  - NADPH oxidases of the Nox family are important enzymatic sources of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the cardiovascular system. Of the 7 members of the Nox family, at least three depend for their activation on specific cytosolic proteins. These are p47phox and its homologue NoxO1 and p67phox and its homologue NoxA1. Also the Rho-GTPase Rac is important but as this protein has many additional functions, it will not be covered here. The Nox1 enzyme is preferentially activated by the combination of NoxO1 with NoxA1, whereas Nox2 gains highest activity with p47phox together with p67phox. As p47phox, different to NoxO1 contains an auto inhibitory region it has to be phosphorylated prior to complex formation. In the cardio-vascular system, all cytosolic Nox proteins are expressed but the evidence for their contribution to ROS production is not well established. Most data have been collected for p47phox, whereas NoxA1 has basically not yet been studied. In this article the specific aspects of cytosolic Nox proteins in the cardiovascular system with respect to Nox activation, their expression and their importance will be reviewed. Finally, it will be discussed whether cytosolic Nox proteins are suitable pharmacological targets to tamper with vascular ROS production.
KW  - Activity control
KW  - NADPH oxidase
KW  - Nox
KW  - NoxA1
KW  - NoxO1
KW  - Oxygen-derived free radicals
KW  - Phosphorylation
KW  - p22phox
KW  - p47phox
KW  - p67phox
Y1  - 2017
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/45890
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-458906
SN  - 1873-4596
SN  - 0891-5849
N1  - © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY/4.0/).
VL  - 109
SP  - 22
EP  - 32
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - New York, NY [u. a.]
ER  -