Journal
CHEMBIOCHEM
Volume 9, Issue 10, Pages 1623-1631Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200700745
Keywords
glutaredoxin; native chemical ligation; redox chemistry; selenium; selenoenzymes
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Glutaredoxin (Grx1) from Escherichia coli is a monomeric, 85-amino-acid-long, disulfide-containing redox protein. A Grx1 variant in which the redox-active disulfide was replaced with a selenocysteine (C11U/C14S) was prepared by native chemical ligation from three fragments as a potential mimic of the natural selenoenzyme glutathione peroxidase (Gpx). Selenoglutaredoxin, like the analogous C14S Grx1 variant, shows weak peroxidase activity. The selenol provides a 30-fold advantage over the thiol, but its activity is four orders of magnitude lower than that of bovine Gpx. In contrast, selenoglutaredoxin is an excellent catalyst for thiol-disulfide exchange reactions; it promotes the reduction of 130 units mg(-1). This value is 1.8 times greater than that of C14S Grx1 under identical conditions, and > 10(4) greater than the peroxidase activity of either enzyme. Given the facile reduction of the glutathionyl-selenoglutaredoxin adduct by glutathione, oxidation of the selenol by the alkyl hydroperoxide substrate likely limits catalytic turnover and will have to be optimized to more effective Gpx mimics. These results highlight the challenge of generating Gpx activity in a small, generic protein scaffold, despite the presence of a well-defined glutathione binding site and the intrinsic advantage of selenium over sulfur derivatives.
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