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ArticleThe Biochemical journal2008

Structural and mechanistic insights into type II trypanosomatid tryparedoxin-dependent peroxidases.

Magnus S Alphey, Janine König, Alan H Fairlamb

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Article in The Biochemical journal, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Review
  3. A ComparativeEvolutionary bioinformatics online · 2016
    Article
  4. Peroxiredoxins in parasites.Antioxidants & redox signaling · 2012
    Review
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Magnus S AlpheyDivision of Biological Chemistry and Drug Discovery, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 5EH, Scotland, UK.
Janine König
Alan H Fairlamb
University of Dundee · GB

Funding

Wellcome Trust 079838Wellcome Trust 083481Wellcome Trust WT 079838Wellcome Trust WT 083481
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

TbTDPX (Trypanosoma brucei tryparedoxin-dependent peroxidase) is a genetically validated drug target in the fight against African sleeping sickness. Despite its similarity to members of the GPX (glutathione peroxidase) family, TbTDPX2 is functional as a monomer, lacks a selenocysteine residue and relies instead on peroxidatic and resolving cysteine residues for catalysis and uses tryparedoxin rather than glutathione as electron donor. Kinetic studies indicate a saturable Ping Pong mechanism, unlike selenium-dependent GPXs, which display infinite K(m) and V(max) values. The structure of the reduced enzyme at 2.1 A (0.21 nm) resolution reveals that the catalytic thiol groups are widely separated [19 A (0.19 nm)] and thus unable to form a disulphide bond without a large conformational change in the secondary-structure architecture, as reported for certain plant GPXs. A model of the oxidized enzyme structure is presented and the implications for small-molecule inhibition are discussed.

Indexed as

Amino Acid SequenceAnimalsBinding SitesCrystallography, X-RayCytosolKineticsMitochondriaModels, MolecularMolecular Sequence DataPeroxidasesProtozoan ProteinsRecombinant ProteinsSequence AlignmentTrypanosoma brucei bruceiPeroxidasesProtozoan ProteinsRecombinant Proteinstryparedoxin peroxidase

Identifiers

PMID18522537
PMCPMC2552391
OpenAlexW1980024923

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