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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jun 22.
Published in final edited form as: Free Radic Res. 2021 Jun;55(6):619–624. doi: 10.1080/10715762.2021.1979228

Table 1.

Molecular weights of SOD enzymes isomers in C. elegans, D. melanogaster and E. coli

Organism

C. elegans
Protein Length (aa) Subunit Mol.wt (Estimated)/ Isoelectric Point (pI)
SOD-3/MnSOD 218 24.6 kD 8.43
(Inducible; Hunter et al., 2015) Tetrameric
SOD-2/MnSOD (constitutive) 221 25.5 kD
Tetrameric
7.77
SOD-1, Isoform a/Cu-Zn SOD 180 18.7 kD
Dimeric
6.14
SOD-1, Isoform b/Cu-Zn SOD 158 16.2 kD
Dimeric
6.14
SOD4, Isoform a 176 18.2 kD
Dimeric (?)
6.43
SOD4, Isoform b 221 23.3 kD
Dimeric (?)
6.22
SOD-5 178 18.5 kD 5.42
D. melanogaster
SOD-2/MnSOD 217 24.7 kD 8.10
SOD-1, PA 153 Tetrameric
15.7 kD
6.06
Cu-Zn SOD Dimeric
E. coli
SOD-2/MnSOD 206 25.2 kD
Dimeric and Tetrameric
6.88
FeSOD 192 21.9 kD 5.91
SOD-1 (Cu-Zn SOD) 173 15.6 kD
Dimeric
6.53

Most subunit information obtained from Sheng et al (2014)