“…Because of the a,bunsaturated carbonyl group that constitutes the electrophilic carbon center, cyPGs are prone to undergo Michael addition reactions with various nucleophiles (Noyori and Suzuki, 1993), such as the free sulfhydryl group of cysteine residues located in reduced glutathione (Cagen et al, 1975;Atsmon et al, 1990;Parker and Ankel, 1992;Gayarre et al, 2005) or many redoxregulated cellular proteins (Rossi et al, 2000;Straus et al, 2000;Cernuda-Morollon et al, 2001;Oliva et al, 2003;Perez-Sala et al, 2003;Shibata et al, 2003). Of particular interest is 15-deoxy-D 12,14 -prostaglandin J 2 (15d-PGJ 2 ), one of the terminal products of the COX-2-mediated arachidonic acid pathway, that has been shown to covalently modify several transcription factors and other signaling molecules, including nuclear factorkB (Rossi et al, 2000;Straus et al, 2000;CernudaMorollon et al, 2001), H-Ras (Oliva et al, 2003), thioredoxin (Shibata et al, 2003), AP-1 (Perez-Sala et al, 2003), Keap1 (Levonen et al, 2004;Oh et al, 2008), peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-g (Shiraki et al, 2005), eukaryotic initiation factor 4F (Kim et al, 2007b) and estrogen receptor-a (Kim et al, 2007a).…”