Structure, catalytic mechanism, and evolution of the glutathione transferases

RN Armstrong - Chemical research in toxicology, 1997 - ACS Publications
The discovery in 1961 of a catalytic activity for the addition of glutathione (GSH) to 1, 2-
dichloro-4-nitrobenzene in cytosolic extracts of liver (1, 2) initiated three decades of …

Glutathione transferases: a structural perspective

A Oakley - Drug metabolism reviews, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
The glutathione transferases (GSTs) are one of the most important families of detoxifying
enzymes in nature. The classic activity of the GSTs is conjugation of compounds with …

Identification, characterization, and crystal structure of the Omega class glutathione transferases

PG Board, M Coggan, G Chelvanayagam… - Journal of Biological …, 2000 - ASBMB
A new class of glutathione transferases has been discovered by analysis of the expressed
sequence tag data base and sequence alignment. Glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) of the …

Human cytosolic glutathione transferases: structure, function, and drug discovery

B Wu, D Dong - Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2012 - cell.com
Glutathione transferases (GSTs) are important detoxifying enzymes that catalyze the
conjugation of electrophilic substrates to glutathione. In recent years, GSTs have been of …

Differences in the catalytic efficiencies of allelic variants of glutathione transferase P1-1 towards carcinogenic diol epoxides of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.

K Sundberg, AS Johansson, G Stenberg… - …, 1998 - academic.oup.com
Previous studies have identified allelic variants of the human glutathione transferase (GST)
Pi gene and showed that the two different encoded proteins with isoleucine (GSTP1-1/I-105) …

[HTML][HTML] Cloning and crystal structure of hematopoietic prostaglandin D synthase

Y Kanaoka, H Ago, E Inagaki, T Nanayama, M Miyano… - Cell, 1997 - cell.com
Hematopoietic prostaglandin (PG) D synthase is the key enzyme for production of the D and
J series of prostanoids in the immune system and mast cells. We isolated a cDNA for the rat …

Marine Glutathione S-Transferases

B Blanchette, X Feng, BR Singh - Marine biotechnology, 2007 - Springer
The aquatic environment is generally affected by the presence of environmental xenobiotic
compounds. One of the major xenobiotic detoxifying enzymes is glutathione S-transferase …

Where freedom is given, liberties are taken

GJ Kleywegt, TA Jones - Structure, 1995 - cell.com
Many people who are interested in biology are still under the impression that the beautiful
pictures of macromolecules presented in this journal and others are to be believed down to …

JS-K, a Glutathione/Glutathione S-Transferase-activated Nitric Oxide Donor of the Diazeniumdiolate Class with Potent Antineoplastic Activity

PJ Shami, JE Saavedra, LY Wang, CL Bonifant… - Molecular cancer …, 2003 - AACR
We have previously shown that nitric oxide (NO) inhibits growth and induces differentiation
and apoptosis in acute myeloid leukemia cells, with the HL-60 human myeloid leukemia line …

Direct observation of negative cooperativity in a detoxification enzyme at the atomic level by Electron Paramagnetic Resonance spectroscopy and simulation

X Bogetti, A Bogetti, J Casto, G Rule, L Chong… - Protein …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The catalytic activity of human glutathione S‐transferase A1‐1 (hGSTA1‐1), a homodimeric
detoxification enzyme, is dependent on the conformational dynamics of a key C‐terminal …