ArticleNature metabolism2025
Regulation of mammalian cellular metabolism by endogenous cyanide production.
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28 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Cyanide Beyond Toxicity: A Systematic Review of Its Effects on Vascular Function.Basic & clinical pharmacology & toxicology · 2025Pooled it
- Catechol-Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Tunable and self-reporting esterase-activated cyanide prodrugs exert cytoprotective effects.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Hydrogen Cyanide Generation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa Blunts the Host Innate Immune Response.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Basal release of 6-cyanodopamine from rabbit isolated aorta and its modulation of vascular reactivity.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2026Article
- Protein thiol alterations drive pathologic liquid-liquid phase separation in the aging brain.Nature structural & molecular biology · 2026Article
- Knockouts of Sulfur Metabolism Genes Induce Chronic Inflammation and Immune Dysregulation inAntioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Metabolic Enzyme MeHNL11 Regulates MeCAS1b Transcription for Cyanide Reutilization in Response to Nitrate Deficiency in Cassava.Plant biotechnology journal · 2026Article
- A Novel ESIPT-Based Probe for Sensitive Detection and Bioimaging of Hypochlorous Acid.Journal of fluorescence · 2026Article
- Cleavage and inactivation of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome.Respiratory research · 2026Article
- Metallo-β-lactamase-producing Enterobacterales: cyanide-containing efflux pump inhibitors as potential dual-activity inhibitors.The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy · 2026Article
- Metabolic advances in 2025: from clinical breakthroughs to molecular reprogramming.Metabolism open · 2026Article
- Harnessing Hydrogen Cyanide (HCN): Responsive Chemical Tools for Delivering an Emerging Gasotransmitter.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026Article
- Hydrogen Sulfide Consumption and Cell Bioenergetics in Human (Patho)physiology.Handbook of experimental pharmacology · 2026Review
- Cyanide is an endogenous stimulator of endothelial cell proliferation, migration and differentiation.Experimental biology and medicine (Maywood, N.J.) · 2026Article
- Cystathionine γ-lyase is a major regulator of cognitive function through neurotrophin signaling and neurogenesis.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Protic small molecule bioregulators.Redox biology · 2025Review
- Novel Colorimetric Anthracene-Based Thiosemicarbazone Probe for Selective Cyanide Ion Detection: From Synthesis to Real-Time Applications.ACS omega · 2025Article
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- Black gas, bright future: HNeurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2025Review
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Abstract
Small, gaseous molecules such as nitric oxide, carbon monoxide and hydrogen sulfide are produced as signalling molecules in mammalian cells. Here, we show that low concentrations of cyanide are generated endogenously in various mammalian tissues and cells. We detect cyanide in several cellular compartments of human cells and in various tissues and the blood of mice. Cyanide production is stimulated by glycine, occurs at the low pH of lysosomes and requires peroxidase activity. When generated at a specific rate, cyanide exerts stimulatory effects on mitochondrial bioenergetics, cell metabolism and cell proliferation, but impairs cellular bioenergetics at high concentrations. Cyanide can modify cysteine residues via protein S-cyanylation, which is detectable basally in cells and mice, and increases in response to glycine. Low-dose cyanide supplementation exhibits cytoprotective effects in hypoxia and reoxygenation models in vitro and in vivo. Conversely, pathologically elevated cyanide production in nonketotic hyperglycinaemia is detrimental to cells. Our findings indicate that cyanide should be considered part of the same group of endogenous mammalian regulatory gasotransmitters as nitric oxide, carbon monoxide and hydrogen sulfide.
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