Thioltransferase (glutaredoxin) from Chinese cabbage: Purification and properties

Journal of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 377-383

  Cho, Young Wook ^a   Park, Eun Hee ^b   Lim, Chang Jin ^a  

^a Kangwon National University   (South Korea)

^b Sookmyung Women's University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Chinese cabbage (Brassica campestris ssp. napus var. Pekinensis); Glutaredoxin; Purification; Thioltransferase

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032365614     PISSN: 12258687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Axelsson, K., Eriksson S. and Mannervik, B. (1978) Purification and characterization of cytoplasmic thioltransferase (glutathione:disulfide oxidoreductase) from rat liver. Biochemistry 17, 2978-2984.
2. Axelsson, K. and Mannervik, B. (1983) An essential role of cytosolic thioltransferase in protection of pyruvate kinase from rabbit liver against oxidative inactivation. FEBS Lett. 152, 114-118.
3. Bradford, M. M. (1976) A rapid and sensitive method for the quantity of microgram quantities of protein utilizing the principle of protein-dye binding. Anal. Biochem. 72, 248-254.
4. Chrestensen, C. A., Eckman, C. B., Starke, D. W. and Mieyal, J. J. (1995) Cloning, expression and characterization of human thioltransferase (glutaredoxin) in E. coli. FEBS Lett. 374, 25-28.
5. Fuchs, J. A. (1977) Isolation of an Escherichia coli mutant deficient in thioredoxin reductase. J. Bacteriol. 129, 967-972.
6. Gan, Z.-R. and Wells, W. W. (1986) Purification and properties of thioltransferase. J. Biol. Chem. 261, 996-1001.
7. Gan, Z.-R. and Wells, W. W. (1987a) Preparation of homogeneous pig thioltransferase by a thiohdisulfide mediated pI shift. Anal. Biochem. 162, 265-273.
8. Gan, Z.-R. and Wells, W. W. (1987b) The primary structure of pig liver thioltransferase. J. Biol. Chem. 262, 6699-6703.
9. Goswami, A. and Rosenberg, I. N. (1985) Purification and characterization of a cytosolic protein enhancing GSH-dependent microsomal iodothyronine 5′-monodeiodination. J. Biol. Chem. 260, 6012-6019.
10. Hatakeyama, M., Lee, C., Chon, C., Hayashi, M. and Mizoguchi, T. (1985a) Purification and some properties of rabbit liver cytosol thioltransferase. J. Biochem. 97, 893-897.
11. Hatakeyama, M., Lee, C., Chon, C., Hayashi, M. and Mizoguchi, T. (1985b) Release of thioltransferase from rabbit's polymorphonuclear leucocytes by immune complex in vitro and inhibition of the enzyme by chloramphenicol. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 127, 458-463.
12. Holmgren, A. (1976) Hydrogen donor system for Escherichia coli ribonuleotide-diphosphate reductase dependent upon glutathione. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 73, 2275-2279.
13. Holmgren, A. (1979a) Glutathione-dependent synthesis of deoxyribonucleotides: Purification and characterization of glutaredoxin from Escherichia coli. J. Biol. Chem. 254, 3664-3671.
14. Holmgren, A. (1979b) Glutathione-dependent synthesis of deoxyribonucleotides. Characterization of the enzymatic mechanism of Escherichia coli glutaredoxin. J. Biol. Chem. 254, 3672-3678.
15. Holmgren, A. (1979c) Thioredoxin catalyzes the reaction of insulin disulfides by dithiothreitol and dihydrolipoamide. J. Biol. Chem. 254, 9627-9632.
16. Höög, J. O., von Bahr-Lindström, H., Jörnvall, H. and Holmgren, A. (1986) Cloning and expression of the glutaredoxin (grx) gene of Escherichia coli. Gene 43, 13-21.
17. Hopper, S., Johnson, P. S., Vath, J. E. and Biemann, K. (1989) Glutaredoxin from rabbit bone marrow. J. Biol. Chem. 264, 20438-20447.
18. Johnson, G. P., Goebel, S. J., Perkus, M. E., Davis, S. W., Winslow, J. P. and Paoletti, E. (1991) Vaccinia virus encodes a protein with similarity to glutaredoxins. Virology 181, 378-381.
19. Klintrot, I.-M., Höög, I.-O., Jörnvall, H., Holmgren, A. and Luthman, M. (1984) The primary structure of calf thymus glutaredoxin. Homology with the corresponding Escherichia coli protein but elongation at both ends and with additional half-cystine/cysteine pair. Eur. J. Biochem. 144, 417-423.
20. Kren, B., Parsell, D. and Fuchs, J. A. (1988) Isolation and characterization of an Escherichia coli K-12 mutant deficient in glutaredoxin. J. Bacteriol. 170, 308-315.
21. Laemmli, U. K. (1970) Cleavage of structural proteins during the assembly of the head of bacteriophage T4. Nature 277, 680-685.
22. Lemaster, D. M. (1986) Nucleotide sequence and protein overproduction of bacteriophage T4 thioredoxin. J. Virol. 59, 759-760.
23. Lowry, O. H., Rogebrough, N. J., Farr, A. L. and Randall, R. J. (1951) Protein measurement with the Folin phenol reagent. J. Biol. Chem. 193, 265-275.
24. Luthman, M., Ericksson, S., Holmgren, A. and Thelander, L. (1979) Glutathione-dependent hydrogen donor system for calf thymus ribonucleoside-diphosphate reductase. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 76, 2158-2162.
25. Luthman, M. and Holmgren, A. (1982) Glutaredoxin from calf thymus: Purification to homogeneity. J. Biol. Chem. 257, 6686-6690.
26. Mark, D. F. and Richardson, C. C. (1976) Escherichia coli thioredoxin: a subunit of bacteriophage T7 DNA polymerase. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 73, 780-784.
27. Mieyal, J. J., Starke, D. W., Garvina, S. A., Dothey, C. and Chung, J. S. (1991) Thioltransferase in human red blood cells: Purification and properties. Biochemistry 30, 6088-6097.
28. Minakuchi, K., Yabushita, T., Masumura, T., Ichihara, K. and Tanaka, K. (1994) Cloning and sequence analysis of a cDNA encoding rice glutaredoxin. FEBS Lett. 337, 157-160.
29. Morell S., Follmann, H. and Höberlein, I. (1995) Identification and localization of the first glutaredoxin in leaves of a higher plant. FEBS Lett. 369, 149-152.
30. Papayannopoulos, I. A., Gan, Z.-R., Wells, W. W. and Biemann, K. (1989) A revised sequence of calf thymus glutaredoxin. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 159, 1448-1454.
31. Papov, V. V., Gravina, S. A., Mieyal, J. J. and Biemann, K. (1994) The primary structure and properties of thioltransferase (glutaredoxin) from human red blood cells. Protein Sci. 3, 428-434.
32. Sa, J.-H., Kim, K. and Lim, C.-J. (1997) Purification and characterization of glutaredoxin from Cryptococcus neoformans. Mol. Cells 7, 655-660.
33. Sa, J.-H., Yong, M.-Y., Song, B.-L. and Lim, C.-J. (1998) Characterization of thioltransferase from kale. J. Biochem. Mol. Biol. 31, 20-24.
34. Sha, S., Minakuchi, K., Higaki, N., Sato, K., Ohtsuki, K., Kurata, A., Yoshikawa, H., Kotaru, M., Masumura, T., Ichihara, K. and Tanaka, K. (1997) Purification and characterization of glutaredoxin (thioltransferase) from rice (Oryza sativa L.). J. Biochem. (Tokyo) 121, 842-848.
35. Stahl, R. L., Liebes, L. F., Farber, C. M. and Silber, R. (1983) A spectrophotometric assay for dehydroascorbate reductase. Anal. Biochem. 131, 341-344.
36. Tsang, M. L.-S. (1981) Assimilatory sulfate reduction in Escherichia coli: Identification of the alternate cofactor for adenosine 3′-phosphate 5′-phosphate reductase as glutaredoxin. J. Bacteriol. 146, 1059-1066.
37. Wells, W. W., Yang, Y., Deits, T. L. and Gan, Z.-R. (1993) Thioltransferase. Adv. Enzymol. Relat. Areas Mol. Biol. 66, 149-201.
38. Wells, W. W., Xu, D. P., Yang, Y. and Rocque, P. A. (1990) Mammalian thioltransferase (glutaredoxin) and protein disulfide isomerase have dihydroascorbate reductase activity. J. Biol. Chem. 265, 15361-15364.