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The role of trehalose and its transporter in protection against reactive oxygen species.
Biochimica et biophysica acta - 1 Dec 2008
da Costa Morato Nery Débora, da Silva Carmelita Gomes, Mariani Diana, Fernandes Patrícia Neves, Pereira Marcos Dias, Panek Anita Dolly, Eleutherio Elis Cristina Araújo
Abstract excerpt
During menadione stress, trehalose was necessary intracellularly, but under H2O2, the sugar was required on the outside of the plasma membrane. The mechanism of protection involves minimizing the oxidative damage caused to both proteins and lipids, which would require the presence of trehalose on...
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