title: Crystal structure of a theta-class glutathione transferase.
abstract: Glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) are a family of enzymes involved in the cellular detoxification of xenotoxins. Cytosolic GSTs have been grouped into four evolutionary classes for which there are representative crystal structures of three of them. Here we report the first crystal structure of a theta-class GST. So far, all available GST crystal structures suggest that a strictly conserved tyrosine near the N-terminus plays a critical role in the reaction mechanism and such a role has been convincingly demonstrated by site-directed mutagenesis. Surprisingly, the equivalent residue in the theta-class structure is not in the active site, but its role appears to have been replaced by either a nearby serine or by another tyrosine residue located in the C-terminal domain of the enzyme.
authors.affiliation: Ian Potter Foundation Protein Crystallography Laboratory, St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Wilce
authors.forename: P G
authors.initials: PG
authors.lastname: Board
authors.forename: S C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Feil
authors.forename: M W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Parker
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001665:Binding Sites; D002384:Catalysis; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D004175:Diptera / Q000201:enzymology; D005978:Glutathione / Q000378:metabolism; D005982:Glutathione Transferase / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000145:classification; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011487:Protein Conformation; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D005982:Glutathione Transferase; D005978:Glutathione