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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 294, Issue 49, Pages 18863-18872Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.RA119.011237
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Parkinson disease; Parkinson disease (autosomal recessive; early onset) 7 (PARK7); thiol; glycation; neurodegeneration; deglycase; DJ-1; glyoxalase; hemiaminal; hemithioacetal
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- Nazarbayev University Oak Ridge Associated Universities grant
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Loss-of-function mutations in the gene encoding human protein DJ-1 cause early onset of Parkinson's disease, suggesting that DJ-1 protects dopaminergic neurons. The molecular mechanisms underlying this neuroprotection are unclear; however, DJ-1 has been suggested to be a GSH-independent glyoxalase that detoxifies methylglyoxal (MGO) by converting it into lactate. It has also been suggested that DJ-1 serves as a deglycase that catalyzes hydrolysis of hemithioacetals and hemiaminals formed by reactions of MGO with the thiol and amino groups of proteins. In this report, we demonstrate that the equilibrium constant of reaction of MGO with thiols is ?500 m(?1) at 37 ?C and that the half-life of the resulting hemithioacetal is only 12 s. These thermodynamic parameters would dictate that a significant fraction of free MGO will be present in a fast equilibrium with hemithioacetals in solution. We found that removal of free MGO by DJ-1's glyoxalase activity forces immediate spontaneous decomposition of hemithioacetals due to the shift in equilibrium position. This spontaneous decomposition of hemithioacetals could be mistaken for deglycase activity of DJ-1. Furthermore, we demonstrate that higher initial concentrations of hemithioacetals are associated with lower rates of DJ-1?mediated conversion of MGO, ruling out the possibility that hemithioacetals are DJ-1 substrates. Experiments with CRISPR/Cas-generated DJ-1?knockout HEK293 cells revealed that DJ-1 does not protect against acute MGO toxicity or carboxymethylation of lysine residues in cells. Combined, our results suggest that DJ-1 does not possess protein deglycase activity.
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