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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-12-30
pubmed:abstractText
Glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) are a heterogeneous family of enzymes that catalyse the conjugation of glutathione (GSH) to electrophilic sites on a variety of hydrophobic substrates. In the present study three amino acid residues (Trp12, Phe35 and Ile118) of the xenobiotic binding site (H-site) of maize GST I were altered in order to evaluate their contribution to substrate binding and catalysis. These residues are not conserved and hence may affect substrate specificity and/or product dissociation. The results demonstrate that these residues are important structural moieties that modulate an enzyme's catalytic efficiency and specificity. Phe35 and Ile118 also participate in k(cat) regulation by affecting the rate-limiting step of the catalytic reaction. The effect of temperature on the catalytic activity of the wild-type and mutant enzymes was also investigated. Biphasic Arrhenius and Eyring plots for the wild-type enzyme showed an apparent transition temperature at 35 degrees C, which seems to be the result of a change in the rate-limiting step of the catalytic reaction. Thermodynamic analysis of the activity data showed that the activation energy increases at low temperatures, whereas the entropy change seems to be the main determinant that contributes to the rate-limiting step at high temperatures.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
1741-0126
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
17
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
741-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15556969-Amino Acid Substitution, pubmed-meshheading:15556969-Atrazine, pubmed-meshheading:15556969-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:15556969-Catalytic Domain, pubmed-meshheading:15556969-DNA, Plant, pubmed-meshheading:15556969-Ethacrynic Acid, pubmed-meshheading:15556969-Glutathione Transferase, pubmed-meshheading:15556969-Kinetics, pubmed-meshheading:15556969-Models, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:15556969-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:15556969-Mutagenesis, Site-Directed, pubmed-meshheading:15556969-Protein Conformation, pubmed-meshheading:15556969-Protein Engineering, pubmed-meshheading:15556969-Recombinant Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:15556969-Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, pubmed-meshheading:15556969-Substrate Specificity, pubmed-meshheading:15556969-Temperature, pubmed-meshheading:15556969-Thermodynamics, pubmed-meshheading:15556969-Xenobiotics, pubmed-meshheading:15556969-Zea mays
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Engineering the xenobiotic substrate specificity of maize glutathione S-transferase I.
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratory of Enzyme Technology, Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Agricultural University of Athens, 75 Iera Odos Street, 11855 Athens, Greece. lambrou@aua.gr
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't