LIS - Legume Information System
Information about legume traits for crop improvement
GlycineMine
v5.1.0.3
Glycine data from LIS
v5.1.0.3
Glycine data from LIS
| Description | Also known as gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase and gamma-ECS (EC:6.3.2.2). This enzyme catalyses the first and rate limiting step in de novo glutathione biosynthesis. Members of this family are found in archaea, bacteria and plants. May and Leaver [1] discuss the possible evolutionary origins of glutamate-cysteine ligase enzymes in different organisms and suggest that it evolved independently in different eukaryotes, from an ancestral bacterial enzyme. They also state that Arabidopsis thaliana gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase is structurally unrelated to mammalian, yeast and Escherichia coli homologues. In plants, there are separate cytosolic and chloroplast forms of the enzyme. |
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