Genetic mapping of six mouse peroxiredoxin genes and fourteen peroxiredoxin related sequences.
Genetic mapping of six mouse peroxiredoxin genes and fourteen peroxiredoxin related sequences.
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六个小鼠过氧化还原蛋白基因和十四个过氧化还原蛋白相关序列的遗传图谱。
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10.1007/s003359901150
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1999
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Kozak,CA
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Lyu,MS;Rhee,SG;Chae,HZ;Lee,TH;Adamson,MC;Kang,SW;Jin,DY;Jeang,KT;Kozak,CA
Organisms living in aerobic environments require mechanisms that prevent or limit cellular damage caused by reactive oxygen species (O2−, H2O2, and HO) that arise from the incomplete reduction of oxygen during respiration. Alternatively, damage can result from exposure to external agents such as light, radiation, redox-cycling drugs, or stimulated host phagocytes (Sies 1993; Halliwell and Gutteridge, 1989). The reactive oxygen species cause damage to all major classes of biological macromolecules leading to protein oxidation, lipid peroxidation, and DNA base modifications and strand breaks. To guard against these destructive processes, organisms have developed a battery of antioxidant defenses (Halliwell and Gutteridge 1989; Amstad et al. 1991). The preventive antioxidant systems include enzymes that decompose peroxides and superoxide anion and compounds that sequester metal ions. These types of antioxidants reduce or eliminate the generation of free radicals. Chain-breaking antioxidants, such as ascorbate and α-tocopherol, scavenge transient free radicals and inhibit the attack of these reactive species on biological targets. We have previously purified a 25-kDa enzyme from yeast that prevents damage induced by the thiol oxidation system but not by the ascorbate oxidation system, despite the fact that the degree of oxidative stress is similar for the two systems as judged by the comparable extent of induced inactivation of glutamine synthetase (Kim et al. 1988). Thus, we originally named this protein thiolspecific antioxidant (TSA). Although the exact nature of the oxidant eliminated by TSA was not known at that time, the importance of TSA as an antioxidant was readily apparent as the application of oxidative pressure to yeast resulted in an increase in the synthesis of TSA, and TSA protein constituted 0.7% of total soluble protein from yeast grown aerobically (Kim et al. 1989). Yeast TSA gene was cloned and sequenced (Chae et al. 1993). It shows no significant homology to any known catalase, superoxide dismutase, or peroxidase enzymes. This lack of homology is consistent with the observation that TSA does not possess catalytic activity characteristic of conventional antioxidant enzymes. A yeast mutant that cannot produce TSA was constructed by homologous recombination (Chae et al. 1993). The mutant and wild-type strains grew at equal rates under anaerobic conditions. However, under aerobic conditions, especially under oxidative stress, the growth rate of mutant yeast was significantly lower than that of wild-type yeast.A database search revealed a number of proteins from a variety organisms that show similarity to TSA (Chae et al. 1994b). These homologous proteins have now been named the peroxiredoxin (PRDX) family. We recently demonstrated that the antioxidant activity of TSA is attributable to its ability to reduce H2O2. The apparent specific requirement for a thiol for antioxidant function was due to the fact that an intermolecular disulfide linkage of oxidized TSA can be reduced by a thiol but not by ascorbate. We have shown that thioredoxin (TRX) is the physiological electron donor for the reduction of TSA (Chae et al. 1994a). TSA was thus the first peroxidase to be identified for which TRX is the immediate electron donor, and it was therefore renamed TRX peroxidase (TPX). Despite this finding, the TSA homologs (the PRDX gene family) were not termed the TPX family because not all members use TRX as the hydrogen donor. For example, enteric bacteria homolog AhpC and trypanosomatid homolog C22 receive electron from AhpF and C30 proteins, respectively, for the reduction of H2O2 (Jacobson et al. 1989 …