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Dichloromethane mediated in vivo selection and functional characterization of rat glutathione S-transferase theta 1-1 variants.
European journal of biochemistry - 1 Jul 2001
Gisi D, Maillard J, Flanagan J U, Rossjohn J, Chelvanayagam G, Board P G, Parker M W, Leisinger T, Vuilleumier S
Abstract excerpt
Methylobacterium dichloromethanicum DM4 is able to grow with dichloromethane as the sole carbon and energy source by using a dichloromethane dehalogenase/glutathione S-transferase (GST) for the conversion of dichloromethane to formaldehyde. Mammalian homologs of this bacterial enzyme are also known to catalyze this reaction. However, the dehalogenation of dichloromethane by GST T1-1 from rat was highly mutagenic...
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