Structural basis for a distinct catalytic mechanism in Trypanosoma brucei tryparedoxin peroxidase

J Melchers, M Diechtierow, K Fehér, I Sinning… - Journal of Biological …, 2008 - ASBMB
Trypanosoma brucei, the causative agent of African sleeping sickness, encodes three
cysteine homologues (Px I-III) of classical selenocysteine-containing glutathione …

Catalytic mechanism of the glutathione peroxidase-type tryparedoxin peroxidase of Trypanosoma brucei

T Schlecker, MA Comini, J Melchers… - Biochemical …, 2007 - portlandpress.com
Trypanosoma brucei, the causative agent of African sleeping sickness, encodes three nearly
identical genes for cysteine-homologues of the selenocysteine-containing glutathione …

Substrate specificity, localization, and essential role of the glutathione peroxidase-type tryparedoxin peroxidases in Trypanosoma brucei

T Schlecker, A Schmidt, N Dirdjaja, F Voncken… - Journal of Biological …, 2005 - ASBMB
Trypanosoma brucei, the causative agent of African sleeping sickness, encodes three nearly
identical cysteine homologues of the classical selenocysteine-containing glutathione …

A second class of peroxidases linked to the trypanothione metabolism

H Hillebrand, A Schmidt, RL Krauth-Siegel - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2003 - ASBMB
Trypanosoma brucei, the causative agent of African sleeping sickness, has three nearly
identical genes encoding cysteine homologues of classical selenocysteine-containing …

Structural and mechanistic insights into type II trypanosomatid tryparedoxin-dependent peroxidases

MS Alphey, J König, AH Fairlamb - Biochemical Journal, 2008 - portlandpress.com
Tb TDPX (Trypanosoma brucei tryparedoxin-dependent peroxidase) is a genetically
validated drug target in the fight against African sleeping sickness. Despite its similarity to …

The structure of reduced tryparedoxin peroxidase reveals a decamer and insight into reactivity of 2Cys-peroxiredoxins

MS Alphey, CS Bond, E Tetaud, AH Fairlamb… - Journal of Molecular …, 2000 - Elsevier
Tryparedoxin peroxidase (TryP) is a recently discovered 2Cys-peroxiredoxin involved in
defence against oxidative stress in parasitic trypanosomatids. The crystal structure of …

Tryparedoxin and tryparedoxin peroxidase

L Flohé, P Steinert, HJ Hecht, B Hofmann - Methods in enzymology, 2002 - Elsevier
Trypanothione [N 1, N 8-bis (glutathionyl) spermidine, T (SH) 2], discovered in 1985 by
Fairlamb and Cerami, 1 is the main low molecular weight thiol in trypanosomatids of the …

Sequence, heterologous expression and functional characterization of tryparedoxin1 from Crithidia fasciculata

SA Guerrero, L Flohé, HM Kalisz… - European journal of …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Tryparedoxin (TXN) has recently been discovered as a constituent of the complex
peroxidase system in the trypanosomatid Crithidia fasciculata [Nogoceke et al.(1997) Biol …

[引用][C] Crystallisation of tryparedoxin I from Crithidia fasciculata

HM Kalisz, B Hofmann, E Nogoceke, DU Gommel… - Biofactors, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Trypanothione-dependent metabolism of hydroperoxides in the trypanosomatids is a unique
system involving trypanothione reductase, tryparedoxin and tryparedoxin peroxidase [1] …

Kinetics and redox-sensitive oligomerisation reveal negative subunit cooperativity in tryparedoxin peroxidase of Trypanosoma brucei brucei

H Budde, L Flohé, HJ Hecht, B Hofmann, M Stehr… - 2003 - degruyter.com
Tryparedoxin peroxidases (TXNPx) are peroxiredoxintype enzymes that detoxify
hydroperoxides in trypanosomatids. Reduction equivalents are provided by trypanothione [T …