Important role of the 3-mercaptopropionamide moiety in glutathione: promoting effect on decomposition of the adduct of glutathione with the oxoammonium ion of TEMPO.
Important role of the 3-mercaptopropionamide moiety in glutathione: promoting effect on decomposition of the adduct of glutathione with the oxoammonium ion of TEMPO.
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谷胱甘肽中3-巯基丙酰胺部分的重要作用:促进谷胱甘肽与TEMPO的氧铵离子加合物分解的作用。
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发表时间:
2005
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
H. Ohmori
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作者:
H. Maeda;Hong;Yuji Yamauchi;H. Ohmori
Cyclic voltammetry of TEMPO in aqueous 0.1 M NaOH in the presence of glutathione (GSH) or cysteine (Cys) indicated the following points: (i) Both of the thiols rapidly formed adducts 3 with oxoammonium ion 1 anodically generated from TEMPO. (ii) 3 generated from GSH entered a succeeding reaction that generated N-oxide anion 2- (the reduced TEMPO). (iii) 3 produced from Cys remained intact over the time scale of voltammetry. A structural feature of GSH was considered to contribute to the observed behavior of this tripeptide. Possible structural features were evaluated by screening various thiols on the basis of whether they provided GSH-like voltammetric results. The 3-mercaptopropionamide group with an amide hydrogen in GSH was determined to be responsible for the observed difference between GSH and Cys. The likely function is to transform 3 from GSH into a 5-imino-1,2-oxathiolane intermediate, thereby releasing 2-. Product analysis for reactions of model thiols representing GSH and Cys with 1 provided support for this argument and suggested that the reaction of GSH or Cys with 1 would produce the corresponding disulfides, regardless of whether a five-membered ring intermediate was formed. The proposed function of the 3-mercaptopropionamide moiety of GSH may provide useful insight for the molecular design of exogenous thiol compounds as novel drugs for the treatment of GSH-depletion-related disorders.