Episodes of horizontal gene-transfer and gene-fusion led to co-existence of different metal-ion specific glyoxalase I
Open Access
- 13 November 2013
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Scientific Reports
- Vol. 3 (1), 3076
- https://doi.org/10.1038/srep03076
Abstract
Glyoxalase pathway plays an important role in stress adaptation and many clinical disorders. The first enzyme of this pathway, glyoxalase I (GlxI), uses methylglyoxal as a substrate and requires either Ni(II)/Co(II) or Zn(II) for activity. Here we have investigated the origin of different metal ion specificities of GlxI and subsequent pattern of inheritance during evolution. Our results suggest a primitive origin of single-domain Ni dependent GlxI [Ni-GlxI]. This subsequently evolved into Zn activated GlxI [Zn-GlxI] in deltaproteobacteria. However, origin of eukaryotic Zn-GlxI is different and can be traced to GlxI from Candidatus pelagibacter and Sphingomonas. In eukaryotes GlxI has evolved as two-domain protein but the corresponding Zn form is lost in plants/higher eukaryotes. In plants gene expansion has given rise to multiple two-domain Ni-GlxI which are differentially regulated under abiotic stress conditions. Our results suggest that different forms of GlxI have evolved to help plants adapt to stress.This publication has 82 references indexed in Scilit:
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