Article
Superoxide radical and superoxide dismutases.
Annual review of biochemistry - 1 Jan 1995
Fridovich I
Abstract excerpt
O2- oxidizes the [4Fe-4S] clusters of dehydratases, such as aconitase, causing-inactivation and release of Fe(II), which may then reduce H2O2 to OH- +OH.. SODs inhibit such HO. production by scavengingO2-, but Cu, ZnSODs, by virtue of a nonspecific peroxidase activity, may peroxidize spin trappin...
Topics
- Animals
- Carbohydrate Metabolism
- Carbohydrates
- Escherichia coli
- Humans
- Hydroxyl Radical
- Mutation
- Superoxide Dismutase
- Superoxides