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| _displayName | Cyanide is a potent metabolic poison which binds to and inhi... |
| _timestamp | 2018-01-09 10:50:57 |
| created | [InstanceEdit:9013470] Jassal, Bijay, 2017-07-25 |
| literatureReference | [LiteratureReference:9013208] Clinical toxicology of cyanide [LiteratureReference:9013210] Past, present and future of cyanide antagonism research: From the early remedies to the current therapies [LiteratureReference:9013221] A review of acute cyanide poisoning with a treatment update [LiteratureReference:9013482] Mercaptopyruvate sulfurtransferase as a defense against cyanide toxication: molecular properties and mode of detoxification [LiteratureReference:9013541] Cyanide toxicity in juvenile pigs and its reversal by a new prodrug, sulfanegen sodium [LiteratureReference:9013559] Sulfanegen sodium treatment in a rabbit model of sub-lethal cyanide toxicity |
| modified | [InstanceEdit:9013478] Jassal, Bijay, 2017-07-25 [InstanceEdit:9013485] Jassal, Bijay, 2017-07-25 [InstanceEdit:9013548] Jassal, Bijay, 2017-07-25 [InstanceEdit:9013628] Jassal, Bijay, 2017-07-25 [InstanceEdit:9017155] Jassal, Bijay, 2017-08-17 [InstanceEdit:9034651] Jassal, Bijay, 2018-01-09 |
| text | Cyanide is a potent metabolic poison which binds to and inhibits cytochrome c oxidase (cytochrome a3), resulting in the rapid inhibition of oxidative phosphorylation (Hall & Rumack 1986). As a result, cells can't utilise oxygen, giving rise to central nervous system, cardiovascular and respiratory dysfunction that can result in permanent neurological defects and, in severe cases, death. At body's pH, cyanide exists mainly in the undissociated form hydrogen cyanide (HCN) which can cross cellular and subcellular membranes such as the blood brain barrier and mitochondrial membranes. Although humans aren't typically exposed to toxic levels of cyanide, cyanide intoxication can occur after smoke inhalation, industrial exposure, ingestion of cyanogenic substances and cyanogenic food sources such as cassava. Antidotes for HCN poisoning cases include HCN binders, sulfur donors that convert HCN to the less toxic thiosulfate and competitors for HCN enzymatic binding sites such as NO (Nagahara et al. 1999, Petrikovics et al. 2015). Two pathways in mammals are able to detoxify cyanide as thiocyanate via transfer of a sulfur atom: thiosulfate sulfurtransferase (TST aka rhodanese) in mitochondria and 3-mercaptopyruvate sulfurtransferase (MPST aka 3MST) in cytosol and mitochondria. MPST mediates the transfer of a sulfur atom from 3-methylpryuvate (3MPYR) to HCN to form the less toxic thiocyanic acid (HSCN) (Himwich & Saunders 1948, Zottola 2009, Moeller et al. 2017). HSCN can be excreted in urine via the kidneys (Hamel 2011). Although the primary role of MPST is not cyanide detoxification, a large body of animal data has demonstrated cyanide is rapidly converted to thiocyanate in vivo when 3MPYR is administered, even in species with low MPST activity (Brenner et al. 2010, Belani et al. 2012). |
| (summation) | [Reaction:9013471] MPST transfers sulfur from 3MPYR to HCN to form HSCN [Homo sapiens] |
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