Glutaredoxin
| Glutaredoxin | |||||||||||
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| Symbol | Glutaredoxin | ||||||||||
| Pfam | PF00462 | ||||||||||
| Pfam clan | CL0172 | ||||||||||
| InterPro | IPR002109 | ||||||||||
| PROSITE | PDOC00173 | ||||||||||
| SCOP2 | 1kte / SCOPe / SUPFAM | ||||||||||
| OPM superfamily | 139 | ||||||||||
| OPM protein | 1z9h | ||||||||||
| CDD | cd02066 | ||||||||||
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Glutaredoxins[1][2][3] are small redox enzymes of approximately one hundred amino-acid residues that use glutathione as a cofactor. Glutaredoxins are oxidized by substrates, and reduced non-enzymatically by glutathione. In contrast to thioredoxins, which are reduced by thioredoxin reductase, no oxidoreductase exists that specifically reduces glutaredoxins. Instead, glutaredoxins are reduced by the oxidation of glutathione. Oxidized glutathione is then regenerated by glutathione reductase. Together these components compose the glutathione system.[4]
Like thioredoxin, which functions in a similar way, glutaredoxin possesses an active centre disulfide bond.[5] It exists in either a reduced or an oxidized form where the two cysteine residues are linked in an intramolecular disulfide bond. Glutaredoxins function as electron carriers in the glutathione-dependent synthesis of deoxyribonucleotides by the enzyme ribonucleotide reductase.[4] Moreover, GRX act in antioxidant defence by reducing dehydroascorbate, peroxiredoxins, and methionine sulfoxide reductase. Beside their function in antioxidant defence, bacterial and plant GRX were shown to bind iron-sulfur clusters and to deliver the cluster to enzymes on demand.[6]
GRXs in viruses
Glutaredoxin has been sequenced in a variety of species. On the basis of extensive sequence similarity, it has been proposed[7] that Vaccinia virus protein O2L is, it seems, a glutaredoxin. Bacteriophage T4 thioredoxin seems to be evolution-related. In position 5 of the pattern T4, thioredoxin has Val instead of Pro.
GRXs in plants
Approximately 30 GRX isoforms are described in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana and 48 in Oryza sativa L. According to their redox-active centre, they are subgrouped in six classes of the CSY[C/S]-, CGFS-, CC-type and 3 groups with additional domain of unknown function. The CC-type GRXs are only found in higher plants. In Arabidopsis GRXs are involved in flower development and Salicylic acid signalling.[6]
Subfamilies
Human proteins containing this domain
GLRX; GLRX2; GLRX3; GLRX5; PTGES2
References
- ^ Holmgren A, Gleason FK (1988). "Thioredoxin and related proteins in procaryotes". FEMS Microbiol. Rev. 4 (4): 271–297. doi:10.1111/j.1574-6968.1988.tb02747.x. PMID 3152490.
- ^ Holmgren A (1988). "Thioredoxin and glutaredoxin: small multi-functional redox proteins with active-site disulfide bonds". Biochem. Soc. Trans. 16 (2): 95–96. PMID 3286320.
- ^ Holmgren A (1989). "Thioredoxin and glutaredoxin systems". J. Biol. Chem. 264 (24): 13963–13966. PMID 2668278.
- ^ a b Holmgren A, Fernandes AP (2004). "Glutaredoxins: glutathione-dependent redox enzymes with functions far beyond a simple thioredoxin backup system". Antioxid. Redox Signal. 6 (1): 63–74. doi:10.1089/152308604771978354. PMID 14713336.
- ^ Nilsson L, Foloppe N (2004). "The glutaredoxin -C-P-Y-C- motif: influence of peripheral residues". Structure. 12 (2): 289–300. doi:10.1016/j.str.2004.01.009. PMID 14962389.
- ^ a b Rouhier N, Lemaire SD, Jacquot JP (2008). "The role of glutathione in photosynthetic organisms: emerging functions for glutaredoxins and glutathionylation". Annu Rev Plant Biol. 59: 143–66. doi:10.1146/annurev.arplant.59.032607.092811. PMID 18444899.
- ^ Johnson GP, Goebel SJ, Perkus ME, Davis SW, Winslow JP, Paoletti E (1991). "Vaccinia virus encodes a protein with similarity to glutaredoxins". Virology. 181 (1): 378–381. doi:10.1016/0042-6822(91)90508-9. PMID 1994586.
External links
- Enzyme database entry
- Glutaredoxins at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)