1XWB

Drospohila thioredoxin, oxidized, P42212

1XWB の概要

• エントリーDOI: 10.2210/pdb1xwb/pdb
• 関連するPDBエントリー: 1XW9 1XWA 1XWC
• 分子名称: thioredoxin, CADMIUM ION (3 entities in total)
• 機能のキーワード: dimerization, drosophila melanogaster, redox regulation, thioredoxin, x-ray crystal structure, electron transport
• 由来する生物種: Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly)
• タンパク質・核酸の鎖数: 4
• 化学式量合計: 47331.78

構造登録者

Wahl, M.C.,Irmler, A.,Hecker, B.,Schirmer, R.H.,Becker, K. (登録日: 2004-10-29, 公開日: 2004-11-16, 最終更新日: 2023-10-25)

主引用文献

Wahl, M.C.,Irmler, A.,Hecker, B.,Schirmer, R.H.,Becker, K.
Comparative structural analysis of oxidized and reduced thioredoxin from Drosophila melanogaster
J.Mol.Biol., 345:1119-1130, 2005

PubMed Abstract: Thioredoxins (Trx) participate in essential antioxidant and redox-regulatory processes via a pair of conserved cysteine residues. In dipteran insects like Drosophila and Anopheles, which lack a genuine glutathione reductase (GR), thioredoxins fuel the glutathione system with reducing equivalents. Thus, characterizing Trxs from these organisms contributes to our understanding of redox control in GR-free systems and provides information on novel targets for insect control. Cytosolic Trx of Drosophila melanogaster (DmTrx) is the first thioredoxin that was crystallized for X-ray diffraction analysis in the reduced and in the oxidized form. Comparison of the resulting structures shows rearrangements in the active-site regions. Formation of the C32-C35 disulfide bridge leads to a rotation of the side-chain of C32 away from C35 in the reduced form. This is similar to the situation in human Trx and Trx m from spinach chloroplasts but differs from Escherichia coli Trx, where it is C35 that moves upon change of the redox state. In all four crystal forms that were analysed, DmTrx molecules are engaged in a non-covalent dimer interaction. However, as demonstrated by gel-filtration analyses, DmTrx does not dimerize under quasi in vivo conditions and there is no redox control of a putative monomer/dimer equilibrium. The dimer dissociation constants K(d) were found to be 2.2mM for reduced DmTrx and above 10mM for oxidized DmTrx as well as for the protein in the presence of reduced glutathione. In human Trx, oxidative dimerization has been demonstrated in vitro. Therefore, this finding may indicate a difference in redox control of GR-free and GR-containing organisms.

PubMed: 15644209
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2004.11.004

実験手法

X-RAY DIFFRACTION (2.2 Å)