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  • Title: Sex difference in subunit composition of hepatic glutathione S-transferase in rats.
    Author: Igarashi T, Satoh T, Iwashita K, Ono S, Ueno K, Kitagawa H.
    Journal: J Biochem; 1985 Jul; 98(1):117-23. PubMed ID: 4044545.
    Abstract:
    The activities of hepatic cytosolic glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) towards 1,2-dichloro-4-nitrobenzene in male rats were higher than those in females, however, the enzyme activities towards 1-chloro-2,4-dinitrobenzene were not significantly different between the two sexes. SDS-PAGE analysis of GSTs purified from male and female rat hepatic cytosols by affinity column chromatography showed that there was a significant difference in the subunit composition between the two sexes. With regard to the several isozymes of GSTs in male and female rats, isozymes with basic and neutral/acidic isoelectric points were separated into seven molecular species by chromatofocusing. These sex differences in the quantitative proportions of GST isozymes were also confirmed by immunotitration using anti-GST-BL and -AC antibodies. On the other hand, glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) activities in rat hepatic cytosol towards hydrogen peroxide and cumene hydroperoxide were markedly higher in females than in males. Of the two types of GSH-Px, selenoenzyme (Se-GSH-Px) and the Se-independent enzyme (non-Se-GSH-Px), the former was found to be mainly responsible for the sex difference in the enzyme activities. Moreover, the GSH-Px activity of GSTs, non-Se-GSH-Px, was also higher in females than that in males. Since GST isozymes of the BL type are known to possess GSH-Px activity towards cumene hydroperoxide, the increased activities of non-Se-GSH-Px in the female hepatic cytosol seemed to be mainly due to the increased transferase activities of the isozymes, GST-L2 and -BL.
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