Encodes a predicted mitochondrial glyoxalase GLX2-1. Studies using recombinant protein show that GLX2-1 contains a dinuclear metal binding site, but does not have glyoxalase 2 activity.
Computational Description
glyoxalase 2-1 (GLX2-1); CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: Beta-lactamase, class B, conserved site (InterPro:IPR001018), Beta-lactamase-like (InterPro:IPR001279), Hydroxyacylglutathione hydrolase (InterPro:IPR017782); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: glyoxalase 2-4 (TAIR:AT1G06130.2); Has 15540 Blast hits to 15539 proteins in 2481 species: Archae - 339; Bacteria - 10160; Metazoa - 480; Fungi - 326; Plants - 230; Viruses - 0; Other Eukaryotes - 4005 (source: NCBI BLink).