Novel substrate specificity of glutathione synthesis enzymes from Streptococcus agalactiae and Clostridium acetobutylicum
Glutathione (GSH) is synthesized by γ-glutamylcysteine synthetase (γ-GCS) and glutathione synthetase (GS) in living organisms. Recently, bifunctional fusion protein, termed γ-GCS–GS catalyzing both γ-GCS and GS reactions from gram-positive firmicutes Streptococcus agalactiae, has been reported. We r...
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Published in | Biochemical and biophysical research communications Vol. 352; no. 2; pp. 351 - 359 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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United States
Elsevier Inc
12.01.2007
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Summary: | Glutathione (GSH) is synthesized by γ-glutamylcysteine synthetase (γ-GCS) and glutathione synthetase (GS) in living organisms. Recently, bifunctional fusion protein, termed γ-GCS–GS catalyzing both γ-GCS and GS reactions from gram-positive firmicutes Streptococcus agalactiae, has been reported. We revealed that in the γ-GCS activity, S. agalactiae γ-GCS–GS had different substrate specificities from those of Escherichia coli γ-GCS. Furthermore, S. agalactiae γ-GCS–GS synthesized several kinds of γ-glutamyltripeptide, γ-Glu-Xaa-Gly, from free three amino acids. In Clostridium acetobutylicum, the genes encoding γ-GCS and putative GS were found to be immediately adjacent by BLAST search, and had amino acid sequence homology with S. agalactiae γ-GCS–GS, respectively. We confirmed that the proteins expressed from each gene showed γ-GCS and GS activity, respectively. C. acetobutylicum GS had broad substrate specificities and synthesized several kinds of γ-glutamyltripeptide, γ-Glu-Cys-Xaa. Whereas the substrate specificities of γ-GCS domain protein and GS domain protein of S. agalactiae γ-GCS–GS were the same as those of S. agalactiae γ-GCS–GS. |
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ISSN: | 0006-291X 1090-2104 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.11.016 |