“…The crystal structures of YajL and DJ-1 are strikingly similar (Wilson et al, 2003(Wilson et al, , 2005, and their backbone structures are essentially identical (0.9 Å C a root-mean-square deviation), suggesting that they have similar functions. DJ-1 is involved in the cellular response to oxidative stress, and has been suggested to function as a weak protease (Lee et al, 2003), an oxidative stress-activated chaperone Shendelman et al, 2004;Zhou et al, 2006), an atypical peroxiredoxin-like peroxidase (Andres-Mateos et al, 2007;Canet-Avilés et al, 2004), a stabilizer of the antioxidant transcriptional regulator Nrf2 (Clements et al, 2006), an apoptosis inhibitor via interaction with Daxx (Junn et al, 2005), a transcriptional or translational regulator of gene expression (Cookson, 2005; van der Brug et al, 2008) and a regulator of uncoupling protein expression affecting the production of reactive oxygen species (Guzman et al, 2010).…”