The transport of oxidized glutathione from human erythrocytes.
The transport of oxidized glutathione from human erythrocytes.
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人红细胞氧化型谷胱甘肽的转运。
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发表时间:
1969
影响因子:
4.8
通讯作者:
E. Beutler
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作者:
S. Srivastava;E. Beutler
Abstract The reduced glutathione of normal and glucose-6-P dehydrogenase-deficient human erythrocytes was oxidized by subjecting the cells to H2O2 diffusion or to treatment with methyl phenylazoformate. A portion of the oxidized glutathione thus formed disappeared from the erythrocytes and could be recovered from the medium when the normal cells were incubated in the absence of glucose or when glucose-6-P dehydrogenase-deficient cells were incubated in the absence or the presence of glucose. The movement of GSSG was strictly unidirectional: no GSSG entered the red cell when the normal red cells were incubated in a medium containing a high concentration of added GSSG, so that the ratio of GSSG in the medium to GSSG in the RBC was approximately 600. The rate of GSSG transport from the red cells was found to be approximately linear over a period of 4 hours and could proceed even against a concentration gradient. The transport of GSSG was halted almost entirely by exhausting endogenous high energy compounds such as ATP by preliminary incubation of red cells in a glucose-free medium for 8 hours or by the presence of 0.1 m fluoride in the incubation medium. The rate of GSSG transport from red cells was also found to be markedly temperature-sensitive. Active transport of GSSG from red cells may explain the low levels of total glutathione observed in glucose-6-P dehydrogenase-deficient erythrocytes and the fate of intraerythrocytic glutathione, which has a normal half-life of 2 to 3 days. It may serve as a defense mechanism against inhibition of intracellular enzymes by high levels of GSSG.