Crystal and solution structural studies of mouse phospholipid hydroperoxide glutathione peroxidase 4

Acta Crystallogr F Struct Biol Commun. 2016 Oct 1;72(Pt 10):743-749. doi: 10.1107/S2053230X16013686. Epub 2016 Sep 22.

Abstract

The mammalian glutathione peroxidase (GPx) family is a key component of the cellular antioxidative defence system. Within this family, GPx4 has unique features as it accepts a large class of hydroperoxy lipid substrates and has a plethora of biological functions, including sperm maturation, regulation of apoptosis and cerebral embryogenesis. In this paper, the structure of the cytoplasmic isoform of mouse phospholipid hydroperoxide glutathione peroxidase (O70325-2 GPx4) with selenocysteine 46 mutated to cysteine is reported solved at 1.8 Å resolution using X-ray crystallography. Furthermore, solution data of an isotope-labelled GPx protein are presented.

Keywords: NMR spectroscopy; phospholipid hydroperoxide glutathione peroxidase 4; reactive oxidative species; small-angle X-ray scattering.

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Animals
  • Cloning, Molecular
  • Crystallography, X-Ray
  • Cysteine / chemistry*
  • Cysteine / metabolism
  • Escherichia coli / genetics
  • Escherichia coli / metabolism
  • Gene Expression
  • Glutathione Peroxidase / chemistry*
  • Glutathione Peroxidase / genetics
  • Glutathione Peroxidase / metabolism
  • Mice
  • Models, Molecular
  • Mutation
  • Phospholipid Hydroperoxide Glutathione Peroxidase
  • Plasmids / chemistry
  • Plasmids / metabolism
  • Protein Conformation, alpha-Helical
  • Protein Conformation, beta-Strand
  • Protein Interaction Domains and Motifs
  • Recombinant Proteins / chemistry
  • Recombinant Proteins / genetics
  • Recombinant Proteins / metabolism
  • Selenocysteine / chemistry*
  • Selenocysteine / metabolism
  • Substrate Specificity

Substances

  • Recombinant Proteins
  • Selenocysteine
  • Phospholipid Hydroperoxide Glutathione Peroxidase
  • Glutathione Peroxidase
  • glutathione peroxidase 4, mouse
  • Cysteine