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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 255, Issue 11, 5011-5014, Jun, 1980

The apparent glutathione oxidase activity of gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase. Chemical mechanism

OW Griffith and SS Tate

The apparent glutathione oxidase activity of gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase is due to nonenzymatic oxidation and transhydrogenation reactions of cysteinylglycine, an enzymatic product formed from glutathione by hydrolysis or autotranspeptidation. Since cysteinylglycine reacts with oxygen more rapidly than does glutathione, the rate of disulfide formation is increased and either cystinyl-bis- glycine or the mixed disulfide of cysteinylglycine and glutathione forms as an intermediate product. Nonenzymatic transhydrogenation reactions of these disulfides with glutathione yield glutathione disulfide and thus account for the apparent glutathione oxidase activity of gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase. A sensitive assay for glutathione oxidation is described, and it is shown that covalent inhibitors of gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase abolish the oxidase activity of the purified enzyme and of crude homogenates of mouse and rat kidney.
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