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Published on: March 18, 2012
Methionine sulfoxide reductase A is a stereospecific methionine oxidase
Jung Chae Lim1, Zheng You, Geumsoo Kim
1Laboratory of Biochemistry, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892-8012, USA.
Abstract:
Methionine sulfoxide reductase A (MsrA) catalyzes the reduction of methionine sulfoxide to methionine and is specific for the S epimer of methionine sulfoxide. The enzyme participates in defense against oxidative stresses by reducing methionine sulfoxide residues in proteins back to methionine. Because oxidation of methionine residues is reversible, this covalent modification could also function as a mechanism for cellular regulation, provided there exists a stereospecific methionine oxidase. We show that MsrA itself is a stereospecific methionine oxidase, producing S-methionine sulfoxide as its product. MsrA catalyzes its own autooxidation as well as oxidation of free methionine and methionine residues in peptides and proteins. When functioning as a reductase, MsrA fully reverses the oxidations which it catalyzes.
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