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Catalase and Glutathione Peroxidase Are Equally Active in Detoxification of Hydrogen Peroxide in Human Erythrocytes

Catalase and Glutathione Peroxidase Are Equally Active in Detoxification of Hydrogen Peroxide in Human Erythrocytes

G F Gaetani, S Galiano, L Canepa, A M Ferraris, H N Kirkman

Blood. 1989 Jan;73(1):334-9.

PMID: 2491951

Abstract:

Genetic deficiencies of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) and NADPH predispose affected erythrocytes to destruction from peroxides. Conversely, genetic deficiencies of catalase do not predispose affected erythrocytes to peroxide-induced destruction. These observations have served to strengthen the assumption that the NADPH/glutathione/glutathione peroxidase pathway is the principal means for disposal of H2O2 in human erythrocytes. Recently, however, mammalian catalase was found to have tightly bound NADPH and to require NADPH for the prevention and reversal of inactivation by its toxic substrate (H2O2). Since both catalase and the glutathione pathway are dependent on NADPH for function, this finding raises the possibility that both mechanisms destroy H2O2 in human erythrocytes. A comparison of normal and acatalasemic erythrocytes in the present study indicated that catalase accounts for more than half of the destruction of H2O2 when H2O2 is generated at a rate comparable to that which leads to hemolysis in G6PD- deficient erythrocytes.

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Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP9001052-B	Catalase from human erythrocytes		9001-05-2	Price

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