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SUBMITTER: Lim JC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3127874 | biostudies-other | 2011 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Lim Jung Chae JC You Zheng Z Kim Geumsoo G Levine Rodney L RL
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20110613 26
Methionine sulfoxide reductase A (MsrA) catalyzes the reduction of methionine sulfoxide to methionine and is specific for the S epimer of methionine sulfoxide. The enzyme participates in defense against oxidative stresses by reducing methionine sulfoxide residues in proteins back to methionine. Because oxidation of methionine residues is reversible, this covalent modification could also function as a mechanism for cellular regulation, provided there exists a stereospecific methionine oxidase. We ...[more]