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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 276, Issue 10, Pages 7011-7016Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M009814200
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In an attempt to elucidate the essential function of glutathione in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, we searched for suppressors of the GSH auxotrophy of Delta gsh1, a strain lacking the rate-limiting enzyme of glutathione biosynthesis. We found that specific mutations of PRO2, the second enzyme in proline biosynthesis, permitted the growth of Delta gsh1 in the absence of exogenous GSH, The suppression mechanism by alleles of PRO2 involved the biosynthesis of a trace amount of glutathione, Deletion of PRO1, the first enzyme of the proline biosynthesis pathway, or PRO2 eliminated the suppression, suggesting that gamma -glutamyl phosphate, the product of Pro1 and the physiological substrate of Pro2, is required as an obligate substrate of suppressor alleles of PRO2 for glutathione synthesis, A mutagenesis of a Delta gsh1 strain also lacking the proline pathway failed to generate any suppressor mutants under either aerobic or anaerobic conditions, confirming that glutathione is essential in yeast, This essential function is not related to DNA synthesis based on the terminal phenotype of glutathione-depleted cells or to toxic accumulation of non-native protein disulfides, Analysis of the suppressor strain demonstrates that normal glutathione levels are required for the tolerance to oxidants under acute, but not chronic stress conditions.
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