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Fabrication of chitosan-coated magnetite nanobiocatalyst with Bacillus atrophaeus γ-glutamyl transpeptidase and its application to the synthesis of a bioactive peptide SCV-07. Process Biochem 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.procbio.2022.08.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Zhu Y, He X, Huang R, Wang W, Yu Y, Zhou T. Screening Bacillus subtilis for Effective L-theanine Production from Tea Plant Rhizosphere Soil. APPL BIOCHEM MICRO+ 2022. [DOI: 10.1134/s000368382202017x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Kobayashi S, Tokairin Y, Miyakoshi T, Saito T, Nagaoka K, Ikeda Y, Fujii J, Konno H. Quantitative analysis of γ-glutamylpeptides by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry and application for γ-glutamyltransferase assays. Anal Biochem 2019; 578:13-22. [PMID: 31059677 DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2019.04.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2018] [Revised: 03/11/2019] [Accepted: 04/29/2019] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
Abstract
γ-Glutamylpeptides are largely produced via the action of γ-glutamylcysteine synthetase or γ-glutamyltransferase (GGT). GGT transfers the γ-glutamyl moiety from glutathione (GSH) and other γ-glutamyl compounds to amino acids, peptides, or water. A conventional GGT assay employs a synthetic donor substrate, which facilitates monitoring cleavage activity by means of colorimetric analyses but provides no information on the resulting γ-glutamylpeptides. In this study, we report on the use of liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) to quantitatively measure the levels of 21 γ-glutamylpeptides including GSH and 45 amino acids, including Cys. Authentic compounds consisting of 17 chemically synthesized and commercially available 4 γ-glutamylpeptides were adopted as references. We applied this method to the characterization of γ-glutamylpeptides in blood plasma and livers of mice that had been treated with an overdose of acetaminophen. The established LC-MS-based assay was found to be useful for characterizing the γ-glutamylation reaction under in vivo and in vitro conditions and was clearly helpful for understanding the physiological significance of the production of γ-glutamylpeptides.
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- Sho Kobayashi
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Yamagata University, 2-2-2 Iidanishi, Yamagata, 990-9585, Japan
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- Department of Biological Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamagata University, Yonezawa, Yamagata, 992-8510, Japan
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- Department of Biological Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamagata University, Yonezawa, Yamagata, 992-8510, Japan
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- Department of Biological Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamagata University, Yonezawa, Yamagata, 992-8510, Japan
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- Department of Biological Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamagata University, Yonezawa, Yamagata, 992-8510, Japan
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- Division of Molecular Cell Biology, Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Saga University, Saga, 849-8501, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Yamagata University, 2-2-2 Iidanishi, Yamagata, 990-9585, Japan.
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- Department of Biological Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamagata University, Yonezawa, Yamagata, 992-8510, Japan
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Liu J, Gong Z, Liu L. γ-glutamyl transpeptidase 1 specifically suppresses green-light avoidance via GABAA receptors in Drosophila. J Neurochem 2014; 130:408-18. [PMID: 24702462 DOI: 10.1111/jnc.12735] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2013] [Revised: 03/09/2014] [Accepted: 04/02/2014] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
Abstract
Drosophila larvae innately show light avoidance behavior. Compared with robust blue-light avoidance, larvae exhibit relatively weaker green-light responses. In our previous screening for genes involved in larval light avoidance, compared with control w(1118) larvae, larvae with γ-glutamyl transpeptidase 1 (Ggt-1) knockdown or Ggt-1 mutation were found to exhibit higher percentage of green-light avoidance which was mediated by Rhodopsin6 (Rh6) photoreceptors. However, their responses to blue light did not change significantly. By adjusting the expression level of Ggt-1 in different tissues, we found that Ggt-1 in malpighian tubules was both necessary and sufficient for green-light avoidance. Our results showed that glutamate levels were lower in Ggt-1 null mutants compared with controls. Feeding Ggt-1 null mutants glutamate can normalize green-light avoidance, indicating that high glutamate concentrations suppressed larval green-light avoidance. However, rather than directly, glutamate affected green-light avoidance indirectly through GABA, the level of which was also lower in Ggt-1 mutants compared with controls. Mutants in glutamate decarboxylase 1, which encodes GABA synthase, and knockdown lines of the GABAA receptor, both exhibit elevated levels of green-light avoidance. Thus, our results elucidate the neurobiological mechanisms mediating green-light avoidance, which was inhibited in wild-type larvae.
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- Jiangqu Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Science, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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