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Mol. Cells 2008; 26(6): 616-620

Published online January 1, 1970

© The Korean Society for Molecular and Cellular Biology

Scavenging Reactive Oxygen Species by Rice Dehydroascorbate Reductase Alleviates Oxidative Stresses in Escherichia coli

Sun-Young Shin, Il-Sup Kim, Yul-Ho Kim, Hyang-Mi Park, Jang-Yong Lee, Hong-Gyu Kang and Ho-Sung Yoon

Abstract

Maintaining redox balance is one of the crucial requirements for a cell to endure stress from the outside. Dehydroascorbate reductase (DHAR; EC 1.8.5.1) plays an important role in the ascorbate-glutathione cycle; one of the major ROS scavenging systems in most known biological systems. A cDNA clone of the DHAR gene from Oryza sativa (OsDHAR) was isolated and overexpressed in Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3) strain from the pET-28a(+) expression vector. The OsDHAR transformed E. coli cells showed significantly higher DHAR activity and a lower level of ROS than the E. coli cells transformed by an empty pET-28a(+) vector. Also, the DHAR-overexpressing E. coli strain was more tolerant to oxidant- and heavy metal-mediated stress conditions than the control E. coli strain. The results suggest that the overexpressed rice DHAR gene effectively functions in a prokaryotic system and provide protection to various oxidative stresses.

Keywords antioxidant, DHAR, Oryza sativa, oxidative stress, ROS

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Research Article

Mol. Cells 2008; 26(6): 616-620

Published online December 31, 2008

Copyright © The Korean Society for Molecular and Cellular Biology.

Scavenging Reactive Oxygen Species by Rice Dehydroascorbate Reductase Alleviates Oxidative Stresses in Escherichia coli

Sun-Young Shin, Il-Sup Kim, Yul-Ho Kim, Hyang-Mi Park, Jang-Yong Lee, Hong-Gyu Kang and Ho-Sung Yoon

Abstract

Maintaining redox balance is one of the crucial requirements for a cell to endure stress from the outside. Dehydroascorbate reductase (DHAR; EC 1.8.5.1) plays an important role in the ascorbate-glutathione cycle; one of the major ROS scavenging systems in most known biological systems. A cDNA clone of the DHAR gene from Oryza sativa (OsDHAR) was isolated and overexpressed in Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3) strain from the pET-28a(+) expression vector. The OsDHAR transformed E. coli cells showed significantly higher DHAR activity and a lower level of ROS than the E. coli cells transformed by an empty pET-28a(+) vector. Also, the DHAR-overexpressing E. coli strain was more tolerant to oxidant- and heavy metal-mediated stress conditions than the control E. coli strain. The results suggest that the overexpressed rice DHAR gene effectively functions in a prokaryotic system and provide protection to various oxidative stresses.

Keywords: antioxidant, DHAR, Oryza sativa, oxidative stress, ROS

Mol. Cells
Feb 28, 2023 Vol.46 No.2, pp. 69~129
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The bulk tissue is a heterogeneous mixture of various cell types, which is depicted as a skein of intertwined threads with diverse colors each of which represents a unique cell type. Single-cell omics analysis untangles efficiently the skein according to the color by providing information of molecules at individual cells and interpretation of such information based on different cell types. The molecules that can be profiled at the individual cell by single-cell omics analysis includes DNA (bottom middle), RNA (bottom right), and protein (bottom left). This special issue reviews single-cell technologies and computational methods that have been developed for the single-cell omics analysis and how they have been applied to improve our understanding of the underlying mechanisms of biological and pathological phenomena at the single-cell level.

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