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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 278, Issue 25, Pages 22325-22330Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M302304200
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Inorganic sulfate (SO42-, S+VI) is reduced in vivo to sulfite (SO32-, S+IV) via phosphoadenylylsulfate (PAPS) reductase. Escherichia coli lacking glutathione reductase and glutaredoxins (gor(-) grxA(-) grxB(-) grxC(-)) barely grows on sulfate. We found that incubation of PAPS reductase with oxidized glutathione leads to enzyme inactivation with simultaneous formation of a mixed disulfide between glutathione and the active site Cys-239. A newly developed method based on thiol-specific fluorescent alkylation and gel electrophoresis showed that glutathionylated PAPS reductase is reduced by glutaredoxins via a monothiol mechanism. This glutathionylated species was also observed in poorly growing gor(-) grxA(-) grxB(-) grxC(-) cells expressing inactive glutaredoxin 2 (Grx2) C9S/C12S. However, it was absent in better growing cells expressing monothiol Grx2 C12S or wild type Grx2. Reversible glutathionylation may thus regulate the activity of PAPS reductase in vivo.
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