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    Biochem J. 2004 May 1;379(Pt 3):595-600.

    The identification of a reaction site of glutathione mixed-disulphide formation on gammaS-crystallin in human lens.

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    Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, University of Oxford, Walton Street, Oxford OX2 6AW, UK.

    Abstract

    The glutathionylation of human lens proteins was examined by Western-blot analysis with an anti-GSH antibody and scanning. Several different glutathionylated proteins were observed, and a 47 kDa band was of particular interest. This band did not appear after SDS/PAGE under reducing conditions, suggesting that it was a glutathionylated fraction. The 47 kDa band was found principally in the outer part of the lens, the cortex, but not in the lens nucleus where older proteins are present. The 47 kDa component was composed of betaB1-, betaB2- and gammaS-crystallin, with the gammaS-crystallin having glutathione bound at Cys-82 and at Cys-22, Cys-24 or Cys-26. We conclude that when glutathione becomes bound to gammaS-crystallin, it causes it to bind in turn to the beta-crystallin polypeptides to form a dimer.

    PMID:
    14763903
    [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
    PMCID:
    PMC1224128
    Free PMC Article

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