Protein Information

Name glutathione S transferases
Synonyms GST class alpha 2; Gst2; GST class alpha; GST class alpha member 2; GST gamma; GSTA 2; GSTA2; GSTA2 2…

Compound Information

Name hydrogen cyanide
CAS hydrocyanic acid

Reference List

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5163097 Okawa H, Casida JE: Glutathione S-transferases liberate hydrogen cyanide from organic thiocyanates. Biochem Pharmacol. 1971 Jul;20(7):1708-11.
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4331266 Okawa H, Casida JE: Glutathione S-transferases liberate hydrogen cyanide from organic thiocyanates. Biochem Pharmacol. 1971 Jul;20(7):1708-11.
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12191880 Leng G, Lewalter J: Polymorphism of glutathione S-transferases and susceptibility to acrylonitrile and dimethylsulfate in cases of intoxication. Toxicol Lett. 2002 Aug 5;134(1-3):209-17.

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3556837 Freeman JJ, Hayes EP: The metabolism of acetonitrile to cyanide by isolated rat hepatocytes. . Fundam Appl Toxicol. 1987 Feb;8(2):263-71.

The metabolism of saturated nitriles, including acetonitrile, has been assumed to occur by a cytochrome P-450-dependent oxidation at the alpha-carbon, yielding a cyanohydrin intermediate which may spontaneously degrade to hydrogen cyanide and an aldehyde.
Since acetonitrile is structurally similar to iodomethane, a substrate for glutathione (GSH) S-transferases, we hypothesized that the metabolism of acetonitrile to cyanide might also occur by a nucleophilic substitution reaction involving GSH.
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