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| العنوان: |
Superoxide dismutases: Ancient enzymes and new insights |
| المؤلفون: |
Miller, Anne-Frances1 afm@uky.edu |
| المصدر: |
FEBS Letters. Mar2012, Vol. 586 Issue 5, p585-595. 11p. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
*SUPEROXIDE dismutase, *ENZYME analysis, *CATALYSIS, *BIOLOGICAL evolution, *ESCHERICHIA coli, *PHOTOSYNTHESIS, *ORGANELLES |
| مستخلص: |
Abstract: Superoxide dismutases (SODs) catalyze the de toxification of superoxide. SODs therefore acquired great importance as O2 became prevalent following the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis. Thus the three forms of SOD provide intriguing insights into the evolution of the organisms and organelles that carry them today. Although ancient organisms employed Fe-dependent SODs, oxidation of the environment made Fe less bio-available, and more dangerous. Indeed, modern lineages make greater use of homologous Mn-dependent SODs. Our studies on the Fe-substituted MnSOD of Escherichia coli, as well as redox tuning in the FeSOD of E. coli shed light on how evolution accommodated differences between Fe and Mn that would affect SOD performance, in SOD proteins whose activity is specific to one or other metal ion. [Copyright &y& Elsevier] |
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