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Yeast superoxide dismutase mutants reveal a pro-oxidant action of weak organic acid food preservatives.
Free radical biology & medicine - 1 Dec 1999
Piper P W
Abstract excerpt
Saccharomyces cerevisiae could provide a simple experimental system for testing the antioxidant or pro-oxidant actions of chemicals, because it has the capacity for aerobic and anaerobic growth and can readily lose its mitochondrial electron transport chain (the major endogenous source of reactive oxygen species [ROS]). This study showed that yeast superoxide dismutase mutants, in a simple petri dish test,...
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