title: Rat liver thioredoxin and thioredoxin reductase: purification and characterization.
abstract: A reproducible scheme has been developed for the preparation of rat liver thioredoxin and thioredoxin reductase (EC 1.6.4.5) by using assays based on reduction of insulin and 5,5'-dithiobis(2-nitrobenzoic acid), respectively. Both proteins were purified to homogeneity, as judged from polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Thioredoxin had a molecular weight of 12 000 and contained about 110 amino acids including 4 half-cystines and an NH2-terminal valine. Peptide maps of reduced and carboxymethylated thioredoxin showed that the protein had the active center sequence -Cys-Gly-Pro-Cys-Lys-Met- characteristic of thioredoxins also from procaryotes. Prolonged air oxidation of fully reduced thioredoxin created inactive, aggregated disulfide-containing molecules. Thioredoxin reductase showed a subunit molecular weight of 58 000 and a native molecular weight of 116 000. The enzyme was highly specific for NADPH with a Km of 6 microM. It contained FAD as prosthetic group and was sensitive to inhibition by arsenite. Thioredoxin reductase had a Km of 2.5 microM for rat and calf liver thioredoxin and a Kcat of 3000 min-1.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D002850:Chromatography, Gel; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D002852:Chromatography, Ion Exchange; D008099:Liver / Q000032:analysis*; D009247:NADH, NADPH Oxidoreductases / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013056:Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet; D013880:Thioredoxin-Disulfide Reductase / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D013879:Thioredoxins / Q000302:isolation & purification*
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D013879:Thioredoxins; D009247:NADH, NADPH Oxidoreductases; D013880:Thioredoxin-Disulfide Reductase