ReviewAmino acids2025
Taurine prevents mitochondrial dysfunction and protects mitochondria from reactive oxygen species and deuterium toxicity.
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- The essential role of hydrogen gas recycling by gut microbes in reducing deuterium load in host mitochondria: is trimethylamine oxide a deuterium sensor?Metabolomics : Official journal of the Metabolomic Society · 2026Review
- Untargeted Metabolomics Reveals Metabolic Reprogramming During Viable but Non-Culturable State Formation inFoods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Mitochondrial SLC6A6 supports taurine transport.Nature metabolism · 2026Article
- Mitochondrial metabolism restoration via Tramiprosate suppresses mitochondrial ROS-driven foamy macrophage senescence post spinal cord injury.Journal of orthopaedic translation · 2026Article
- Taurine and Betaine, Alone and in Combination, Mitigate Lysis of Canine Erythrocytes in an In Vitro Model of Iron-Deficiency Anemia.Veterinary and animal science · 2026Article
- Preliminary mechanistic study of mitochondrial function in intestinal protection mediated by high-energy X-ray FLASH radiotherapy.Radiation oncology (London, England) · 2026Article
- Taurine suppresses gastric intestinal metaplasia in patient-derived organoids andWorld journal of gastrointestinal oncology · 2026Article
- Toward new clinical evaluation models for skin longevity: the need for predictive and accelerated approaches.GeroScience · 2026Article
- Taurine intake ameliorates lactic acidosis and hyperferritinemia occurring after mRNA SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in a patient with β-thalassemia trait: a case report and review of literature.Journal of medical case reports · 2026Review
- Inhalation of N-Chlorotaurine Is an Effective Treatment of <italic>Aspergillus fumigatus</italic> Pneumonia in Mice.Journal of innate immunity · 2026Article
- Bacteria microenvironment-responsive missile microneedles modulate immunity and penetrate biofilm for diabetic wound therapy.Bioactive materials · 2026Article
- Clinical implications of taurine in breast cancer.Biochemistry and biophysics reports · 2025Review
- Taurine in Type 2 Diabetes: Plasma Concentrations, Metabolic Pathways, and Potential as a Therapeutic Adjuvant.Current nutrition reports · 2025Review
- Endoplasmic reticulum stress responses in anticancer immunity.Nature reviews. Cancer · 2025Review
- Is Deuterium Sequestering by Reactive Carbon Atoms an Important Mechanism to Reduce Deuterium Content in Biological Water?FASEB bioAdvances · 2025Review
- Role of metabolic conditions in cardiorenal diseases: initiating pathways and therapeutic targeting.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Review
- Toxicological analysis of metabolites in ischemic stroke based on salivary metabolomics.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2025Article
- Deuterium trafficking, mitochondrial dysfunction, copper homeostasis, and neurodegenerative disease.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2025Review
- Taurine-mediated metabolic immune crosstalk indicates and promotes immunosuppression with anti-PD-1 resistance in bladder cancer.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Taurine, although not a coding amino acid, is the most common free amino acid in the body. Taurine has multiple and complex functions in protecting mitochondria against oxidative-nitrosative stress. In this comprehensive review paper, we introduce a novel potential role for taurine in protecting from deuterium (heavy hydrogen) toxicity. This can be of crucial impact to either normal or cancer cells that have highly different mitochondrial redox status. Deuterium is an isotope of hydrogen with a neutron as well as a proton, making it about twice as heavy as hydrogen. We first explain the important role that the gut microbiome and the gut sulfomucin barrier play in deuterium management. We describe the synergistic effects of taurine in the gut to protect against the deleterious accumulation of deuterium in the mitochondria, which disrupts ATP synthesis by ATPase pumps. Moreover, taurine's derivatives, N-chlorotaurine (NCT) and N-bromotaurine (NBrT), produced through spontaneous reaction of taurine with hypochlorite and hypobromite, have fascinating regulatory roles to protect from oxidative stress and beyond. We describe how taurine could potentially alleviate deuterium stress, primarily through metabolic collaboration among various gut microflora to produce deuterium depleted nutrients and deuterium depleted water, and in this way protect against leaky gut barrier, inflammatory bowel disease, and colon cancer.
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