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Early embryonic lethality caused by targeted disruption of the mouse PHGPx gene.
Biochemical and biophysical research communications - 30 May 2003
Imai Hirotaka, Hirao Fumi, Sakamoto Taro, Sekine Kanae, Mizukura Yumi, Saito Makoto, Kitamoto Takeo, Hayasaka Michiko, Hanaoka Kazunori, Nakagawa Yasuhito
Abstract excerpt
Phospholipid hydroperoxide glutathione peroxidase (PHGPx) is the only known intracellular antioxidant enzyme that can directly reduce lipid hydroperoxide in membrane. Mitochondrial and non-mitochondrial PHGPx and sperm nuclei GPx are transcribed from one gene by alternative transcription using different first exons Ia and Ib, respectively. To examine the role of PHGPx in development, we generated mice deficient...
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