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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
16
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-6-1
pubmed:abstractText
The glutathione transferase from squid digestive gland is unique in its very high catalytic activity toward 1-chloro-2,4-dinitrobenzene and in its ancestral relationship to the genes encoding the S-crystallins of the lens of cephalopod eye. The three-dimensional structure of this glutathione transferase in complex with the product 1-(S-glutathionyl)-2,4-dinitrobenzene (GSDNB) has been solved by multiple isomorphous replacement techniques at a resolution of 2.4 A. Like the cytosolic enzymes from vertebrates, the squid protein is a dimer. The structure is similar in overall topology to the vertebrate enzymes but has a dimer interface that is unique when compared to all of the vertebrate and invertebrate structures thus far reported. The active site of the enzyme is very open, a fact that appears to correlate with the high turnover number (800 s-1 at pH 6.5) toward 1-chloro-2,4-dinitrobenzene. Both kcat and kcat/KmCDNB exhibit pH dependencies consistent with a pKa for the thiol of enzyme-bound GSH of 6.3. The enzyme is not very efficient at catalyzing the addition of GSH to enones and epoxides. This particular characteristic appears to be due to the lack of an electrophilic residue at position 106, which is often found in other GSH transferases. The F106Y mutant enzyme is much improved in catalyzing these reactions. Comparisons of the primary structure, gene structure, and three-dimensional structure with class alpha, mu, and pi enzymes support placing the squid protein in a separate enzyme class, sigma. The unique dimer interface suggests that the class sigma enzyme diverged from the ancestral precursor prior to the divergence of the precursor gene for the alpha, mu, and pi classes.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0006-2960
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
25
pubmed:volume
34
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
5317-28
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:7727393-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:7727393-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:7727393-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:7727393-Binding Sites, pubmed-meshheading:7727393-Biological Evolution, pubmed-meshheading:7727393-Crystallins, pubmed-meshheading:7727393-Crystallography, X-Ray, pubmed-meshheading:7727393-DNA Primers, pubmed-meshheading:7727393-Decapodiformes, pubmed-meshheading:7727393-Digestive System, pubmed-meshheading:7727393-Glutathione Transferase, pubmed-meshheading:7727393-Invertebrates, pubmed-meshheading:7727393-Isoenzymes, pubmed-meshheading:7727393-Kinetics, pubmed-meshheading:7727393-Lens, Crystalline, pubmed-meshheading:7727393-Models, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:7727393-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:7727393-Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:7727393-Protein Structure, Secondary, pubmed-meshheading:7727393-Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, pubmed-meshheading:7727393-Substrate Specificity, pubmed-meshheading:7727393-Vertebrates
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
Three-dimensional structure, catalytic properties, and evolution of a sigma class glutathione transferase from squid, a progenitor of the lens S-crystallins of cephalopods.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park 20742, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't