It has been known that hydrogen sulfide and/or polysulfides are produced from a (poly)sulfurated sulfur-acceptor substrate of 3-mercaptopyruvate sulfurtransferase (MST) via thioredoxin (Trx) reduction in vitro. In this study, we used thiosulfate as the donor substrate and the catalytic reaction was terminated on the formation of a persulfide or polysulfides. We can present alternative pathway of production of hydrogen sulfide and/or polysulfides from (poly)sulfurated catalytic-site cysteine of reaction intermediates of MST via Trx reduction. Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization tandem time-of-flight mass spectrometric analysis revealed that after prolonged incubation of MST with thiosulfate, a trisulfide adduct becomes predominant at the sulfurated catalytic-site cysteine. When these adducts were reduced by Trx with reducing system (MST:Escherichia coli Trx:E. coli Trx reductase:NADPH = 1:5:0.02:12.5 molar ratio), liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometric analysis for monobromobimane-derivatized HS revealed that HS first appeared, and then HS and HS did later. The results were confirmed by high-performance liquid chromatography-fluorescence analysis.
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