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Yeast mitochondrial glutathione is an essential antioxidant with mitochondrial thioredoxin providing a back-up system.
Free radical biology & medicine - 1 May 2016
Gostimskaya Irina, Grant Chris M
Abstract excerpt
Glutathione is an abundant, low-molecular-weight tripeptide whose biological importance is dependent upon its redox-active free sulphydryl moiety. Its role as the main determinant of thiol-redox control has been challenged such that it has been proposed to play a crucial role in iron-sulphur clusters maturation, and only a minor role in thiol redox regulation, predominantly as a back-up system for the cytoplasmic...
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