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Aminoglycosides decrease glutathione peroxidase-1 activity by interfering with selenocysteine incorporation.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 10 Feb 2006
Handy Diane E, Hang Gaozhen, Scolaro John, Metes Nicole, Razaq Nadia, Yang Yi, Loscalzo Joseph
Abstract excerpt
Cellular glutathione peroxidase is a key intracellular antioxidant enzyme that contains a selenocysteine residue at its active site. Selenium, a selenocysteine incorporation sequence in the 3'-untranslated region of the glutathione peroxidase mRNA, and other translational cofactors are necessary for "read-through" of a UGA stop codon that specifies selenocysteine incorporation. Aminoglycoside antibiotics...
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