Superoxide dismutase—mentor of abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants

SS Gill, NA Anjum, R Gill, S Yadav… - … science and pollution …, 2015 - Springer
Abiotic stresses impact growth, development, and productivity, and significantly limit the
global agricultural productivity mainly by impairing cellular physiology/biochemistry via …

[HTML][HTML] Superoxide dismutases: ancient enzymes and new insights

AF Miller - FEBS letters, 2012 - Elsevier
Superoxide dismutases (SODs) catalyze the de toxification of superoxide. SODs therefore
acquired great importance as O2 became prevalent following the evolution of oxygenic …

Role of superoxide dismutases (SODs) in controlling oxidative stress in plants

RG Alscher, N Erturk, LS Heath - Journal of experimental botany, 2002 - academic.oup.com
Reactive O 2 species (ROS) are produced in both unstressed and stressed cells. Plants
have well‐developed defence systems against ROS, involving both limiting the formation of …

Superoxide dismutase multigene family: a comparison of the CuZn-SOD (SOD1), Mn-SOD (SOD2), and EC-SOD (SOD3) gene structures, evolution, and expression

IN Zelko, TJ Mariani, RJ Folz - Free radical biology and medicine, 2002 - Elsevier
Superoxide dismutases are an ubiquitous family of enzymes that function to efficiently
catalyze the dismutation of superoxide anions. Three unique and highly compartmentalized …

The structural biochemistry of the superoxide dismutases

JJP Perry, DS Shin, ED Getzoff, JA Tainer - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta …, 2010 - Elsevier
The discovery of superoxide dismutases (SODs), which convert superoxide radicals to
molecular oxygen and hydrogen peroxide, has been termed the most important discovery of …

Superoxide dismutase in Arabidopsis: an eclectic enzyme family with disparate regulation and protein localization

DJ Kliebenstein, RA Monde, RL Last - Plant physiology, 1998 - academic.oup.com
A number of environmental stresses can lead to enhanced production of superoxide within
plant tissues, and plants are believed to rely on the enzyme superoxide dismutase (SOD) to …

Superoxide dismutase evolution and life span regulation

GN Landis, J Tower - Mechanisms of ageing and development, 2005 - Elsevier
Superoxide is among the most abundant reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced by the
mitochondria, and is involved in cellular signaling pathways. Superoxide and other ROS can …

[HTML][HTML] Activation of superoxide dismutases: putting the metal to the pedal

VC Culotta, M Yang, TV O'Halloran - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2006 - Elsevier
Superoxide dismutases (SOD) are important anti-oxidant enzymes that guard against
superoxide toxicity. Various SOD enzymes have been characterized that employ either a …

Oxygen‐induced maturation of SOD1: a key role for disulfide formation by the copper chaperone CCS

Y Furukawa, AS Torres, TV O'Halloran - The EMBO journal, 2004 - embopress.org
The antioxidant enzyme Cu, Zn‐superoxide dismutase (SOD1) has the distinction of being
one of the most abundant disulfide‐containing protein known in the eukaryotic cytosol; …

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis associated with homozygosity for an Asp90Ala mutation in CuZn-superoxide dismutase

PM Andersen, P Nilsson, V Ala-Hurula, ML Keränen… - Nature …, 1995 - nature.com
Recent reports have shown heterozygosity for some twenty different mutations in the CuZn–
superoxide dismutase (CuZn–SOD) gene in familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (FALS) …