PMID: 8587103Dec 1, 1995Paper

Glutathione S-transferase and S-crystallins of cephalopods: evolution from active enzyme to lens-refractive proteins

Journal of Molecular Evolution
S I TomarevJ Piatigorsky

Abstract

Our previous studies have shown that the S-crystallins of cephalopod (Ommastrephes sloani pacificus) eye lenses comprise a family of at least ten members which are evolutionarily related to glutathione S-transferase (GST, EC 2.5.1.18). Here we show by cDNA cloning that there are at least 24 different S-crystallins that are 46-99% identical to each other by amino acid sequence in the squid Loligo opalescens. In each species, all but one S-crystallin (SL11 in O. pacificus and Lops4 in L. opalescens) examined has an inserted central peptide of variable length and sequence. cDNA expression studies conducted in Escherichia coli showed that squid GST (which is expressed little in the lens) has very high enzymatic activity using 1-chloro-2, 4-dinitrobenzene (CDNB) as a substrate; by contrast, SL20-1 of O. pacificus and Lops12 of L. opalescens (which are encoded by abundant lens mRNAs) have no GST activity. Interestingly, SL11 and Lops4 have some enzymatic activity with the CDNB substrate. Site-specific mutations at Y7 or W38, both residues essential for activity of vertebrate GSTs, or insertion of the central peptide present in the inactive SL20-1, reduced the specific activity of squid GST by 30- to 100-fold. These data indicate that...Continue Reading

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