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[44] Glutathione peroxidase

Albrecht Wendel
- 01 Jan 1981 - 
- Vol. 77, pp 325-333
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This chapter presents a procedure for the preparation of glutathione peroxidase, which is regarded as a major protective system against endogenously and exogenously induced lipid peroxidation.
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Publisher Summary This chapter presents a procedure for the preparation of glutathione peroxidase, which is regarded as a major protective system against endogenously and exogenously induced lipid peroxidation. Two types of methods are used for determining the activity of glutathione peroxidase. One involves a direct measurement of unconsumed glutathione (GSH) at fixed time periods by polarographic GSH analysis' (Method 1), or by the dithionitrobenzoic acid method (Method 2). The second approach takes advantage of the capability of glutathione reductase, with nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH), to regenerate GSH from oxidized GSH. The decrease in NADPH is continuously measured spectrophotometrically, while the GSH concentration in the enzymatic cycle remains essentially constant (Method 3). A convenient source for the preparation of glutathione peroxidase is bovine blood including the following steps: hemolysate; organic solvent precipitation; phosphate precipitation; absorption to phenyl-sepharose; and washing on diethylaminoethyl (DEAE)–sephadex, S-300 sephacryl, and hydroxylapatite column.

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Studies on the quantitative and qualitative characterization of erythrocyte glutathione peroxidase

TL;DR: Glutathione peroxidase activity is found to be associated with a relatively stable, nondialyzable, heat-labile, intracellular component which is separable from hemoglobin, by gel filtration and ammonium sulfate precipitation.
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TL;DR: Two peaks of glutathione peroxidase activity were present in the Sephadex G-150 gel filtration chromatogram of rat liver supernatant when 1.5 mM cumene hydroperoxide was used as substrate, and the second peak represents a second glutathienase activity which catalyzes the destruction of organic hydroperoxides but has little activity toward H 2 O 2 and which persists in severe selenium deficiency.
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Structure analysis and molecular model of the selenoenzyme glutathione peroxidase at 2.8 A resolution.

TL;DR: The three-dimensional structure of bovine erythrocyte glutathione peroxidase, a tetrameric enzyme containing 4 gram atoms of selenium per mole, has been determined at 2.8 A resolution using the multiple isomorphous replacement method and the tetramers were shown to exhibit molecular [222] symmetry, proving the monomers to be identical or at least very similar.
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