Tyrosine-7 in human class Pi glutathione S-transferase is important for lowering the pKa of the thiol group of glutathione in the enzyme-glutathione complex.
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Kong KH, Takasu K, Inoue H, Takahashi K
Tyrosine-7 in human class Pi glutathione S-transferase is important for lowering the pKa of the thiol group of glutathione in the enzyme-glutathione complex.
Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1992 Apr 15;184(1):194-7.
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Previously, we reported the importance of Tyr7 for the catalytic activity of human class Pi glutathione S-transferase [Kong et al. (1992) Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm., 182, 1122]. As an extension of this study, we investigated the pH dependence of kinetic parameters of the wild-type enzyme and the Y7F mutant. The replacement of Tyr7 with phenylalanine was found to alter the pH dependence of Vmax and Vmax/KmCDNB of the enzyme for conjugation of GSH with 1-chloro-2,4-dinitrobenzene (CDNB). The pKa of the thiol of GSH in the wild-type enzyme-GSH complex was estimated to be about 2.4 pK units lower than that in the Y7F-GSH complex. Tyr7 is thus considered to be important for catalytic activity in lowering the pKa of the thiol of GSH in the enzyme-GSH complex.