• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.103-108
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• 1990

효모나 세균을 이용한 메칠글리옥살 대사의 효소학적, 유전학적 연구로부터 생물체들은 메칠글리옥살의 해독을 위하여 보편적이고 다양한 경로를 가지고 있음을 알았다. 이들 대사경로 가운데 글리옥살라아제 I은 메칠글리옥살 해독에 있어서 가장 중요한 경로이다. 글리옥살라아제 I의 분자구조는 효소의 기원에 따라 크게 다르게 나타났고, 아연 이온은 효소활성에 필수적이었다. Pseudomonas putida의 글리옥살라아제 I은 유전자는 메칠글리옥살리아의 제거제로 작용하였고, 또한 세균의 크기를 조절하는 역활을 가지고 있었다. 본 유전자의 염기배열과 정제효소의 아미노 말단을 비교해 본 결과 아미노 말단의 메치오닌 잔기는 번역 후 제거 됨을 알았다. 그밖에 글리옥살라아제 I의 생리학적 역활에 대해서도 논의하였다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.277-283
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• 2011

Glyoxalase I catalyzes the conversion of methylglyoxal to S-D-lactoylglutathione in the presence of glutathione. The structural gene of glyoxalase I (GLO1) was cloned from an osmotolerant yeast, Candida magnoliae, which produces a functional sweetener, erythritol, from sucrose. DNA sequence analysis revealed that the uninterrupted open reading frame (ORF) of C. magnoliae GLO1 (CmGLO1) spans 945 bp, corresponding to 315 amino acid residues, and shares 45.2% amino acid sequence identity to Saccharomyces cerevisiae Glo1. The cloned ORF in a multicopy constitutive expression plasmid complemented the glo1 mutation of S. cerevisiae, confirming that it encodes Glo1 in C. magnoliae. The responses of CmGLO1 to environmental stresses were different from those of S. cerevisiae, which only responds to osmotic stress. An enzyme activity assay and reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction revealed that the expression of CmGLO1 is induced by stress inducers such as methylglyoxal, $H_2O_2$, KCl, and NaCl. The GenBank Accession No. for CmGLO1 is HM000001.

• BMB Reports
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.294-299
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• 1996

Glyoxalase I (Ee 4.4.1.5, lactoylglutathione lyase) from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii was purified to homogeneity by ammonium sulfate fractionation, anion-exchange chromatography, hydrophobic interaction chromatography, and affinity chromatography on S-hexylglutathione agarose. The purified enzyme was judged to be homogeneous on SDS-PAGE, and consisted of a single polypeptide chain with a relative molecular weight of 24,000. The enzyme was most active at $40^{\circ}C$ and pH 7.5. It was catalytically most active with methylglyoxal as substrate. A number of properties of the Chlamydomonas glyoxalase I enzyme, such as substrate specificity, molecular mass, kinetic parameters, pi, metal ion effect, have been determined and compared with those reported for preparations from other sources. It had somewhat different characteristics from mammalian enzymes.

• Molecules and Cells
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• 제45권12호
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• pp.869-876
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• 2022

Methylglyoxal (MG) is a dicarbonyl compound formed in cells mainly by the spontaneous degradation of the triose phosphate intermediates of glycolysis. MG is a powerful precursor of advanced glycation end products, which lead to strong dicarbonyl and oxidative stress. Although divergent functions of MG have been observed depending on its concentration, MG is considered to be a potential antitumor factor due to its cytotoxic effects within the oncologic domain. MG detoxification is carried out by the glyoxalase system. Glyoxalase 1 (Glo1), the ubiquitous glutathionedependent enzyme responsible for MG degradation, is considered to be a tumor promoting factor due to it catalyzing the removal of cytotoxic MG. Indeed, various cancer types exhibit increased expression and activity of Glo1 that closely correlate with tumor cell growth and metastasis. Furthermore, mounting evidence suggests that Glo1 contributes to cancer stem cell survival. In this review, we discuss the role of Glo1 in the malignant progression of cancer and its possible use as a promising therapeutic target for tumor therapy. We also summarize therapeutic outcomes of Glo1 inhibitors as prospective treatments for the prevention of cancer.

• Journal of Crop Science and Biotechnology
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.19-26
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• 2007

Glutathione S-transferases(GSTs, EC 2.5.1.18), glyoxalase-I(EC 4.4.1.5) and alliin lyase(alliinase, EC 4.4.1.4) are important enzyme systems in plant bodies. The first two are mainly detoxifying enzymes that utilize glutathione(GSH) in the defense mechanism, and the last one is mainly involved in secondary metabolism and relevant to sulfur compounds derived from GSH. The activities of the three enzymes have been investigated in soluble extracts of vegetable crops, including pumpkin, cabbage, broccoli, radish, carrot, potato, sweet potato, mungbean, and onion. GST activities were detected in all of the vegetables, and the extract of onion bulb exhibited the highest specific activity(648 nmol/min/mgP). The putative GSTs of most of the vegetables were found to be induced by ethanol. The activities of GSTs in onion bulb were found to be markedly inhibited by S-hexyl glutathione and were also inhibited by S-butyl glutathione and S-propyl glutathione. The anti-CmGSTF1 antiserum recognized a thick band for putative onion GST. The estimated glyoxalase-I activity level was also high in onion bulb(4540 nmol/min/mgP), indicating that the thick band detected by Western blot analysis might result from partial recognition of glyoxalase-I by the antiserum. The specific activities for glyoxalase-I were moderate in radish and carrot, and the extracts of other vegetables had rather low levels of activities. The extract of onion also showed the highest specific activity level for alliinase(2069nmol pyruvate/mgP). The extracts of other vegetables also had alliinase activities, although the estimated values were much lower than that of onion.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.315-321
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• 1994

Pleurotus ostreatus로부터 glyoxalase I(S-lactoyl-glutathione methylglyoxal lyase, EC 4.4.1.5)이 S-hexylglutathione affinity chromatography, Sephadex G-150 gel permeation chromatography, DEA-sepharose A-50 CL-6B ion exchange chromatography를 통해 순수 분리되었다. 이 결과, 전체 활성도의 21.7% fmf 수확하였으며, 분리 배수는 2,294 배 이었다. Gel filtration chromatography로 측정한 효소의 분자량은 34 kDa이며, SDS-PAGE 결과 본 효소는 분자량 17 kDa인 동일한 소단위체 두 개로 구성된 이합체라고 생각된다. Methylglyoxal과 phenylglyoxal에 대한 $K_m$ 값은 각각 0.39 mM 과 0.22 mM 이며 L-xylosone과 hydroxypyruvaldehyde에 대해서도 강한 친화력을 보여주었고, pH 6.5~7.5, $35~45^{\circ}C$에서 활성도가 가장 높았다. 이 효소의 반응 과정을 핵자기공 명분광법으로 분석한 결과, 분자내의 양성자 전달과정이 뚜렷이 관찰되었다.

• Plant Biotechnology Reports
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.353-365
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• 2011

The present study investigates the possible regulatory role of exogenous nitric oxide (NO) in antioxidant defense and methylglyoxal (MG) detoxification systems of wheat seedlings exposed to salt stress (150 and 300 mM NaCl, 4 days). Seedlings were pre-treated for 24 h with 1 mM sodium nitroprusside, a NO donor, and then subjected to salt stress. The ascorbate (AsA) content decreased significantly with increased salt stress. The amount of reduced glutathione (GSH) and glutathione disulfide (GSSG) and the GSH/GSSG ratio increased with an increase in the level of salt stress. The glutathione S-transferase (GST) activity increased significantly with severe salt stress (300 mM). The ascorbate peroxidase (APX), monodehydroascorbate reductase (MDHAR), dehydroascorbate reductase (DHAR), catalase (CAT) and glutathione peroxidase (GPX) activities did not show significant changes in response to salt stress. The glutathione reductase (GR), glyoxalase I (Gly I), and glyoxalase II (Gly II) activities decreased upon the imposition of salt stress, especially at 300 mM NaCl, with a concomitant increase in the $H_2O_2$ and lipid peroxidation levels. Exogenous NO pretreatment of the seedlings had little influence on the nonenzymatic and enzymatic components compared to the seedlings of the untreated control. Further investigation revealed that NO pre-treatment had a synergistic effect; that is, the pre-treatment increased the AsA and GSH content and the GSH/GSSG ratio, as well as the activities of MDHAR, DHAR, GR, GST, GPX, Gly I, and Gly II in most of the seedlings subjected to salt stress. These results suggest that the exogenous application of NO rendered the plants more tolerant to salinity-induced oxidative damage by enhancing their antioxidant defense and MG detoxification systems.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.22-26
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• 1993

Trimorphomyces papilionaceus dikaryon 으로부터 자영적인 돌연변이에 의해 분리한 이배체를 대상으로 생장속도, U. V. 광 조사 후의 생존율, U. V. 분광광도계와 Hoechst 33258 핵염색에 의한 DNA 함량등을 monokaryon 및 dikaryon 과 비교하여 결정하였다. 이배체는 dikaryon 핵의 DNA 양과 비슷하였고 monokaryon 핵의 DNA 양의 2배 정도가 되었다. Glyoxalase II 의 band 양상에서 monokayon은 한 개의 isozyme band 만을 보인 반면, 이배체와 dikaryon은 같은 위치에서 두개의 isozyme band 가 관찰되었다. 이원전개한 전기영동실험에서 dikaryon 특이 단백질은 분자량이 66.000 보다 컸으며 분자량 24,000-29,000 사이에서 이배체 특이 단백질이 존재한다.

• Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• 제25권10호
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• pp.517-524
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• 2022

Over production of methylglyoxal (MGO) a highly reactive dicarbonyl compound, has been associated in progressive diabetes with vascular complication. Therefore, we investigated whether hot water extract of Loliolus beka meat (LBM-HWE) presents a preserve effect against MGO-induced cellular damage in human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs). The LBM-HWE extract showed to inhibit MGO-induced cytotoxicity. Additionally, the LBM-HWE reduced mRNA expression of pro-inflammatory cytokines, and reduced MGO-induced advanced glycation end product (AGEs) formation. Furthermore, LBM-HWE induced glyoxalase-1 mRNA expression and reduced MGO-induced carbonyl protein formation in HUVECs. The results implicate that LBM-HWE has protective ability against MGO-induced HUVECs toxicity by preventing AGEs formation. In conclusion, LBM-HWE could be used as a potential treatment material for the prevention of vascular complications of diabetes.

• 한국자기공명학회논문지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.112-118
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• 2015

Hsp31 protein is one of the members of DJ-1 superfamily proteins and has a dimeric structure of which molecular weight (MW) is 62 kDa. The mutation of DJ-1 is closely related to early onset of Parkinson's disease. Hsp31 displays $Zn^{+2}$-binding activity and was first reported to be a holding chaperone in E. coli. Its additional glyoxalase III active has recently been characterized. Moreover, an incubation at $60^{\circ}C$ induces Hsp31 protein to form a high MW oligomer (HMW) in vitro, which accomplishes an elevated holding chaperone activity. The NMR technique is elegant method to probe any local or global structural change of a protein in responses to environmental stresses (heat, pH, and metal). Although the presence of the backbone chemical shifts (bbCSs) is a prerequisite for detailed NMR analyses of the structural changes, general HSQC-based triple resonance experiments could not be used for 62 kDa Hsp31 protein. Here, we prepared the per-deuterated Hsp31 and performed the TROSY-based triple resonance experiments for the bbCSs assignment. Here, detailed processes of per-deuteration and the NMR experiments are described for other similar NMR approaches.