Protein Information

Name glutathione reductase
Synonyms GLUR; GR; GRD 1; GRD1; GRase; GSR; Glutathione reductase; GRases…

Compound Information

Name amitrole
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7562957 Cai Y, Appelkvist EL, DePierre JW: Hepatic oxidative stress and related defenses during treatment of mice with acetylsalicylic acid and other peroxisome proliferators. J Biochem Toxicol. 1995 Apr;10(2):87-94.


Certain antioxidant enzymes (DT-diaphorase, superoxide dismutase, glutathione transferase, glutathione peroxidase, and glutathione reductase) and components (ubiquinone and alpha-tocopherol) were also measured.
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3421709 Miccadei S, Kyle ME, Gilfor D, Farber JL: Toxic consequence of the abrupt depletion of glutathione in cultured rat hepatocytes. Arch Biochem Biophys. 1988 Sep;265(2):311-20.


Inhibition of glutathione reductase by 1,3-bis (2-chloroethyl)-1-nitrosourea (BCNU) or inhibition of catalase by aminotriazole sensitized the hepatocytes to the cytotoxicity of DNFB.
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1733283 Kinnula VL, Chang L, Everitt JI, Crapo JD: Oxidants and antioxidants in alveolar epithelial type II cells: in situ, freshly isolated, and cultured cells. Am J Physiol. 1992 Jan;262(1 Pt 1):L69-77.


Biochemical studies showed that cell culture resulted in a significant decrease in activities of catalase (49%), glutathione reductase (50%), glutathione peroxidase (74%), and in the capacity of the cells to scavenge extracellular H2O2.
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3965466 Starke PE, Farber JL: Endogenous defenses against the cytotoxicity of hydrogen peroxide in cultured rat hepatocytes. J Biol Chem. 1985 Jan 10;260(1):86-92.


The catalase activity of cultured rat hepatocytes was inhibited by 90% pretreatment with 20 mM aminotriazole without effect on the activities of glutathione peroxidase or glutathione reductase, or on the viability of the cells over the subsequent 24 h.
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8469024 Perez-Campo R, Lopez-Torres M, Rojas C, Cadenas S, Barja de Quiroga G: Lung glutathione reductase induction in aging catalase-depleted frogs correlates with early survival throughout the life span. Mech Ageing Dev. 1993 Feb;67(1-2):115-27.

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2488015 Costarides A, Recasens JF, Riley MV, Green K: The effects of ascorbate, 3-aminotriazole, and 1,3-bis-(2-chloroethyl)-1-nitrosourea on hydrogen peroxide levels in the rabbit aqueous humor. Lens Eye Toxic Res. 1989;6(1-2):167-73.


BCNU (1,3-bis-(2-chloroethyl)-1-nitrosourea) was given intravitreally to rabbits: 3.0 mg suppressed iris glutathione reductase activity by 80%, but only increased the oxidized glutathione/total glutathione ratio to 26% from 18%.
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9037247 Renard P, Zachary MD, Bougelet C, Mirault ME, Haegeman G, Remacle J, Raes M: Effects of antioxidant enzyme modulations on interleukin-1-induced nuclear factor kappa B activation. Biochem Pharmacol. 1997 Jan 24;53(2):149-60.


In this study, we systematically evaluated the influence of glutathione peroxidase, glutathione reductase and catalase on IL-1-induced NF-kappa B activation by analysing the effect of specific inhibitors of these enzymes.
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2648406 Brown JM, Grosso MA, Terada LS, Whitman GJ, Banerjee A, White CW, Harken AH, Repine JE: Endotoxin pretreatment increases endogenous myocardial catalase activity and decreases ischemia-reperfusion injury of isolated rat hearts. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1989 Apr;86(7):2516-20.


Hearts isolated from rats pretreated 24 hr before with endotoxin had increased myocardial catalase activity, but the same superoxide dismutase, glutathione peroxidase, glutathione reductase, and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activities, as hearts from untreated rats.
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2903826 Michiels C, Remacle J: Use of the inhibition of enzymatic antioxidant systems in order to evaluate their physiological importance. Eur J Biochem. 1988 Nov 1;177(2):435-41.


Inhibition values were obtained for catalase with aminotriazole, for superoxide dismutase with diethyldithiocarbamate, for glutathione peroxidase with mercaptosuccinate, for glutathione reductase with bischloroethylnitrosourea and for glutathione synthesis with buthionine sulfoximine.
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8771766 Nag AC, Sreepathi P, Lee ML, Reddan JR: Effect of oxidative insult on young and adult cardiac muscle cells in vitro. Cytobios. 1996;85(340):7-27.


Microscopical studies suggested a more marked protection by catalase than by glutathione reductase in the neonatal cells.
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7946385 Kinnula VL, Yankaskas JR, Chang L, Virtanen I, Linnala A, Kang BH, Crapo JD: Primary and immortalized (BEAS 2B) human bronchial epithelial cells have significant antioxidative capacity in vitro. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 1994 Nov;11(5):568-76.


Biochemical analysis showed remarkably similar catalase and glutathione reductase activities in primary cultured epithelial cells and BEAS 2B cells.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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2100169 Green K, Costarides AP, Riley MV: Role of glutathione in the regulation of anterior chamber hydrogen peroxide. Lens Eye Toxic Res. 1990;7(3-4):419-26.


BCNU (1,3-bis-(2-chloroethyl)-l-nitrosourea) and BSO (buthionine sulfoxamine) were used to suppress glutathione reductase and glutathione synthesis, respectively.
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3169364 Antonenkov VD, Panchenko LF: Effect of chronic ethanol treatment under partial catalase inhibition on the activity of enzymes related to peroxide metabolism in rat liver and heart. Int J Biochem. 1988;20(8):823-8.


In order to test the hypothesis that the alcoholic cardiomyopathy under partial catalase inhibition is associated with the activation of lipid peroxidation in cardiomyocytes (Panchenko et al., Experientia 43, 580-581, 1987), the effects of ethanol and catalase inhibitor 3-amino-1,2,4-triazole (aminotriazole) on rat heart and liver content of reduced glutathione and on the activity of enzymes related to peroxide metabolism: catalase, superoxide dismutase, glutathione peroxidase, glutathione reductase, glutathione-S-transferase and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase were investigated. 2.
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18457571 Bayliak M, Gospodaryov D, Semchyshyn H, Lushchak V: Inhibition of catalase by aminotriazole in vivo results in reduction of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells. Biochemistry. 2008 Apr;73(4):420-6.


In vivo inhibition of catalase by AMT in S. cerevisiae caused a simultaneous decrease in glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity and an increase in glutathione reductase activity.
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2624761 Simon RH, DeHart PD, Nadeau DM: Resistance of rat pulmonary alveolar epithelial cells to neutrophil- and oxidant-induced injury. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 1989 Sep;1(3):221-9.


Partial inhibition of glutathione-dependent reactions by depleting intracellular glutathione with buthionine sulfoximine or by inhibiting the enzyme glutathione reductase with 1,3-bis (2-chloroethyl)-1-nitrosourea also augmented the cytotoxic effect of both H2O2 and stimulated neutrophils.
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17110013 Orozco-Ibarra M, Medina-Campos ON, Sanchez-Gonzalez DJ, Martinez-Martinez CM, Floriano-Sanchez E, Santamaria A, Ramirez V, Bobadilla NA, Pedraza-Chaverri J: Evaluation of oxidative stress in D-serine induced nephrotoxicity. Toxicology. 2007 Jan 5;229(1-2):123-35. Epub 2006 Oct 20.


The activity of antioxidant enzymes catalase, superoxide dismutase, glutathione peroxidase, and glutathione reductase remained unchanged at all times studied.
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16168691 Bagnyukova TV, Storey KB, Lushchak VI: Adaptive response of antioxidant enzymes to catalase inhibition by aminotriazole in goldfish liver and kidney. Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol. 2005 Nov;142(3):335-41. Epub 2005 Sep 15.


Glutathione peroxidase and glutathione-S-transferase activities increased in kidney after aminotriazole treatment whereas activities of glutathione peroxidase and glutathione reductase in liver decreased after 24 h but rebounded by 168 h.
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8554348 Przybytkowski E, Averill-Bates DA: Correlation between glutathione and stimulation of the pentose phosphate cycle in situ in Chinese hamster ovary cells exposed to hydrogen peroxide. Arch Biochem Biophys. 1996 Jan 1;325(1):91-8.


The stimulatory effects of both oxidants on pentose phosphate cycle activity appeared to be independent of glutathione reductase activity since they were unaffected in cells treated with 1,3-bis (2-chloroethyl)-1-nitrosourea.
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10086993 Hiraishi H, Shimada T, Ivey KJ, Terano A: Role of antioxidant defenses against ethanol-induced damage in cultured rat gastric epithelial cells. J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 1999 Apr;289(1):103-9.


Incubation of cells with DL-buthionine-(S,R)-sulfoximine, while reducing glutathione production, dose dependently enhanced ethanol-induced injury. 1,3-Bis (chloroethyl)-nitrosourea, while inhibiting glutathione reductase activity, also sensitized cells to ethanol.
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8200258 Ito Y, Suzuki Y, Ogonuki H, Hiraishi H, Razandi M, Terano A, Harada T, Ivey KJ: Role of iron and glutathione redox cycle in acetaminophen-induced cytotoxicity to cultured rat hepatocytes. Dig Dis Sci. 1994 Jun;39(6):1257-64.


Pretreatment with both diethyl maleate, which covalently binds glutathione as catalyzed by glutathione-S-transferase, and bis (chloroethyl)-nitrosourea, an inhibitor of glutathione reductase, enhanced acetaminophen-induced cytotoxicity.
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1784460 Costarides AP, Riley MV, Green K: Roles of catalase and the glutathione redox cycle in the regulation of anterior-chamber hydrogen peroxide. Ophthalmic Res. 1991;23(5):284-94.


The effects of inhibition of both glutathione synthesis and of glutathione reductase and catalase activities have been determined in the regulation of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) in the anterior chamber of pigmented rabbits.
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