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We have used PSI-BLAST to find orthologs of enzymes that use glutathione (including glutaredoxins, glutathione- S -transferases, glutathione reductases and glutathione peroxidases) in both bacteria and eukaryotes (data not shown).
The human FHIT gene, located at the chromosome 3 fragile site FRA3B, is inactivated early in the development of many tumors [ 1 ] . Murine Fhit is also located at a fragile site [ 2 3 ] and mice heterozygous for disruption of Fhit , given low intragastric doses of the mutagen N-nitrosomethylbenzylamine, develop stomach and sebaceous tumors [ 4 ] that can be prevented by viral Fhit expression [ 5 ] . Fhit, a dimer of 147 amino acid subunits, is a member of the histidine triad (HIT) superfamily of nucleotide hydrolases and transferases [ 6 7 ] . Members of the Hint branch of the HIT superfamily are found in all forms of life [ 8 ] . The S. cerevisiae Hint homolog, Hnt1, and rabbit Hint possess adenosine monophosphoramidase activity that functions in yeast to positively regulate function of Kin28, Ccl1 and Tfb3, which constitute the kinase component of general transcription factor TFIIH [ 9 ] . A new Hint related protein, Aprataxin, is mutated in individuals with ataxia with oculomotor apraxia [ 10 11 ] and has a yeast homolog termed Hnt3 [ 9 ] . Members of the Fhit branch of the HIT superfamily have been found in fungi [ 12 13 ] , animals [ 2 14 15 ] and plants [ 7 ] and hydrolyze diadenosine tetraphosphate, diadenosine triphosphate and other 5'-5"'-dinucleoside polyphosphates.
Through the action of farnesyl transferases and type I geranylgeranyl transferases, isoprenoids are attached to the amino acid sequence Cys-Ala-Ala-Xaa (“CAAX”) at the C-terminus of the Rho family of GTPases [20].
Histidine triad (HIT) enzymes are a superfamily of nucleotide hydrolases and transferases that contain a catalytic motif related to the sequence HisφHisφHisφφ (where φ represents a hydrophobic amino acid) and act on substrates containing a nucleoside monophosphate [ 24].
Genes identified using enrichment or screening protocols include Rv2962c and Rv2958c (probable glucuronsyl transferases), Rv2220 (glutamine synthetase A1), Rv3913-Rv3914 (thioredoxin, thioredoxin reductase) and Rv2416c ( eis, unknown function) [ 14 15 22 29 ] . By screening insertional mutants of M. smegmatis, Lagier et al [ 30 ] isolated 8 mutants with impaired ability to survive in human peripheral blood monocyte-derived macrophages and identified the M. tuberculosis gene corresponding the mutated M. smegmatis gene for five of them.
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