REDUCTION AND BINDING OF ARSENATE AND DIMETHYLARSINATE BY GLUTATHIONE - A MAGNETIC-RESONANCE STUDY
REDUCTION AND BINDING OF ARSENATE AND DIMETHYLARSINATE BY GLUTATHIONE - A MAGNETIC-RESONANCE STUDY
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DOI:
10.1016/0009-2797(94)90099-x
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发表时间:
1994-02-01
影响因子:
5.1
通讯作者:
THOMAS, DJ
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作者:
DELNOMDEDIEU, M;BASTI, MM;THOMAS, DJ
By observing the chemical shifts of the proton and carbon-13 nuclei of reduced glutathione, the interactions of arsenate, arsenite and dimethylarsinate with this tripeptide have been characterized. These spectral studies show the reduction and complexation of arsenic to be a two-step process. Initially, the oxidation of 2 mol of glutathione reduces arsenate to arsenite. Then, 3 mol of glutathione are consumed in the formation of a glutathione-arsenite complex. Similar experiments with arsenite identified a (glutathione)3-arsenite complex; however, no oxidized glutathione was detected. The arsenite binding site in the glutathione-arsenite complex is the cysteinyl sulfhydryl. The glutathione-arsenite complex is stable over the pH range from 1.5 to 7.0-7.5. At higher pH, dissociation occurs releasing reduced glutathione. For a glutathione to dimethylarsinate ratio of 3, oxidized glutathione is also coupled with a reduction to trivalent dimethylarsinous acid, prior to the formation of a 1:1 glutathione-dimethylarsinite complex. The role of reduced glutathione in the metabolism of arsenic is consistent with the previously described effects of this agent on the organismic toxicity of arsenic.