PMID: 9531472Jun 11, 1998Paper

Glutathione transferase zeta catalyses the oxygenation of the carcinogen dichloroacetic acid to glyoxylic acid

The Biochemical Journal
Z TongM W Anders

Abstract

Dichloroacetic acid (DCA), a common drinking-water contaminant, is hepatocarcinogenic in rats and mice, and is a therapeutic agent used clinically in the management of lactic acidosis. DCA is biotransformed to glyoxylic acid by glutathione-dependent cytosolic enzymes in vitro and is metabolized to glyoxylic acid in vivo. The enzymes that catalyse the oxygenation of DCA to glyoxylic acid have not, however, been identified or characterized. In the present investigation, an enzyme that catalyses the glutathione-dependent oxygenation of DCA was purified to homogeneity (587-fold) from rat liver cytosol. SDS/PAGE and HPLC gel-filtration chromatography showed that the purified enzyme had a molecular mass of 27-28 kDa. Sequence analysis showed that the N-terminus of the purified protein was blocked. An internal sequence of 30 amino acid residues was obtained that matched the recently discovered human glutathione transferase Zeta well [Board, Baker, Chelvanayagam and Jermiin (1997) Biochem. J. 328, 929-935]. Western-blot analysis showed that the purified rat-liver enzyme cross-reacted with rabbit antiserum raised against recombinant human glutathione transferase Zeta. The apparent Km and Vmax values of the purified enzyme with DCA as th...Continue Reading

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