Peroxiredoxin-5 (PRDX5), mitochondrial is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PRDX5gene, located on chromosome 11.[5]
This gene encodes a member of the six-member peroxiredoxin family of antioxidant enzymes. Like the other five members, PRDX5 is widely expressed in tissues but differs by its large subcellular distribution.[6] In human cells, it has been shown that PRDX5 can be localized to mitochondria, peroxisomes, the cytosol, and the nucleus.[7] Human PRDX5 is identified by virtue of the sequence homologies to yeast peroxisomal antioxidant enzyme PMP20.[6][8]
Biochemically, PRDX5 is a peroxidase that can use cytosolic or mitochondrial thioredoxins to reduce alkyl hydroperoxides or peroxynitrite with high rate constants in the 106 to 107 M−1s−1 range, whereas its reaction with hydrogen peroxide is more modest, in the 105 M−1s−1 range.[7] So far, PRDX5 has been shown to be a cytoprotective antioxidant enzyme that inhibits endogenous or exogenous peroxide accumulation.[7]
^ abZhou Y, Kok KH, Chun AC, Wong CM, Wu HW, Lin MC, Fung PC, Kung H, Jin DY (February 2000). "Mouse peroxiredoxin V is a thioredoxin peroxidase that inhibits p53-induced apoptosis". Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 268 (3): 921–7. doi:10.1006/bbrc.2000.2231. PMID10679306.
^ abcKnoops B, Goemaere J, Van der Eecken V, Declercq JP (August 2011). "Peroxiredoxin 5: structure, mechanism, and function of the mammalian atypical 2-Cys peroxiredoxin". Antioxidants & Redox Signaling. 15 (3): 817–29. doi:10.1089/ars.2010.3584. PMID20977338.