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Mitochondrial NADPH, transhydrogenase and disease.
Biochimica et biophysica acta - 1 Jan 2000
Rydström Jan
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Ever since its discovery in 1953 by N. O. Kaplan and coworkers, the physiological role of the proton-translocating transhydrogenase has generally been assumed to be that of generating mitochondrial NADPH. Mitochondrial NADPH can be used in a number of important reactions/processes, e.g., biosynthesis, maintenance of GSH, apoptosis, aging etc. This assumed role has found some support in bacteria but not in higher...
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