Protein Information

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

Compound Information

Name acrolein
CAS 2-propenal

Reference List

PubMed Abstract RScore(About this table)
9175718 Vander Jagt DL, Hunsaker LA, Vander Jagt TJ, Gomez MS, Gonzales DM, Deck LM, Royer RE: Inactivation of glutathione reductase by 4-hydroxynonenal and other endogenous aldehydes. Biochem Pharmacol. 1997 Apr 25;53(8):1133-40.

Inactivation appears to involve the initial formation of an enzyme-inactivator complex, K (D) = 0.5 microM, followed by the inactivation reaction, k = 1.3 x 10 (-2) min (-1). alpha,beta-Unsaturated aldehydes such as acrolein, crotonaldehyde, and cinnamaldehyde also inactivated glutathione reductase, although rates varied widely.
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7728738 Subramaniam S, Subramaniam S, Shyamala Devi CS: Erythrocyte antioxidant enzyme activity in CMF treated breast cancer patients. Cancer Biochem Biophys. 1994 Oct;14(3):177-82.

Acrolein and phosphoramide mustard are the metabolites of cyclophosphamide which are among the causative agents which reduce the activity of superoxide dismultase, catalase, glutathione peroxidase, glutathione reductase, glutathione-S-transferase and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase in erythrocytes of CMF treated breast cancer patients.
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18501200 Ansari MA, Roberts KN, Scheff SW: Oxidative stress and modification of synaptic proteins in hippocampus after traumatic brain injury. Free Radic Biol Med. 2008 Aug 15;45(4):443-52. Epub 2008 May 3.

At various times post-TBI, animals were killed and the hippocampus was analyzed for antioxidants (GSH, GSSG, glutathione peroxidase, glutathione reductase, glutathione-S-transferase, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, superoxide dismutase, and catalase) and oxidants (acrolein, 4-hydroxynonenal, protein carbonyl, and 3-nitrotyrosine).
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18607771 Zhu H, Jia Z, Strobl JS, Ehrich M, Misra HP, Li Y: Potent induction of total cellular and mitochondrial antioxidants and phase 2 enzymes by cruciferous sulforaphane in rat aortic smooth muscle cells: cytoprotection against oxidative and electrophilic stress. Cardiovasc Toxicol. 2008 Fall;8(3):115-25. Epub 2008 Jul 8.

Here we report that incubation of rat aortic smooth muscle A10 cells with sulforaphane (0.25-5 microM) resulted in concentration-dependent induction of a spectrum of important cellular antioxidants and phase 2 enzymes, including superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase, the reduced form of glutathione (GSH), glutathione peroxidase, glutathione reductase (GR), glutathione S-transferase (GST), and NAD (P) H:quinone oxidoreductase 1 (NQO1).
Pretreatment with sulforaphane (0.5, 1, and 5 microM) protected aortic smooth muscle cells from oxidative and electrophilic cytotoxicity induced by xanthine oxidase (XO)/xanthine, H2O2, SIN-1-derived peroxynitrite, 4-hydroxy-2-nonenal, and acrolein.
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14673659 Iuchi Y, Kaneko T, Matsuki S, Ishii T, Ikeda Y, Uchida K, Fujii J: Carbonyl stress and detoxification ability in the male genital tract and testis of rats. Histochem Cell Biol. 2004 Feb;121(2):123-30. Epub 2003 Dec 13.

While acrolein inactivated glutathione reductase, an enzyme involved in recycling oxidized glutathione, AKR activity was affected at the high concentration only.
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8742318 Cassee FR, Groten JP, Feron VJ: Changes in the nasal epithelium of rats exposed by inhalation to mixtures of formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, and acrolein. Fundam Appl Toxicol. 1996 Feb;29(2):208-18.

Activities of glutathione S-transferase and glutathione reductase after 3 days of exposure to acrolein, alone or in combination with formaldehyde and acetaldehyde, were depressed whereas the glutathione peroxidase activity was elevated.
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12747729 Lauderback CM, Drake J, Zhou D, Hackett JM, Castegna A, Kanski J, Tsoras M, Varadarajan S, Butterfield DA: Derivatives of xanthic acid are novel antioxidants: application to synaptosomes. Free Radic Res. 2003 Apr;37(4):355-65.

Xanthates scavenge hydroxyl radicals and hydrogen peroxide, form disulfide bonds (dixanthogens), and react with electrophilic products of lipid oxidation (acrolein) in a manner similar to GSH.
Further, upon disulfide formation, dixanthogens are reduced by glutathione reductase to a redox active xanthate.
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10378479 Monteil C, Le Prieur E, Buisson S, Morin JP, Guerbet M, Jouany JM: Acrolein toxicity: comparative in vitro study with lung slices and pneumocytes type II cell line from rats. Toxicology. 1999 Apr 15;133(2-3):129-38.

This increase was concomitant with glutathione-S-transferase (GST) and glutathione reductase (GRED) activities in L2 cells.
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16828947 Bhatia K, Kaur M, Atif F, Ali M, Rehman H, Rahman S, Raisuddin S: Aqueous extract of Trigonella foenum-graecum L. ameliorates additive urotoxicity of buthionine sulfoximine and cyclophosphamide in mice. Food Chem Toxicol. 2006 Oct;44(10):1744-50. Epub 2006 Jun 3.

Cyclophosphamide (CP) is a commonly used anti-cancer drug which causes toxicity by its reactive metabolites such as acrolein and phosphoramide mustard.
CP-treated animals exhibited a significant decrease in the activities of glutathione S-transferase (GST), glutathione reductase (GR), glutathione peroxidase (GP) and catalase (CAT) when compared to the controls.
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18367636 Zhu H, Jia Z, Zhang L, Yamamoto M, Misra HP, Trush MA, Li Y: Antioxidants and phase 2 enzymes in macrophages: regulation by Nrf2 signaling and protection against oxidative and electrophilic stress. Exp Biol Med. 2008 Apr;233(4):463-74.

As compared with wild-type cells, Nrf2 (- /-) macrophages were much more susceptible to cell injury induced by reactive oxygen/nitrogen species, as well as two known macrophage toxins, acrolein and cadmium.
Incubation of wild-type macrophages with 3H-1,2-dithiole-3-thione (D3T) led to significant induction of various antioxidants and phase 2 enzymes, including catalase, glutathione, glutathione peroxidase (GPx), glutathione reductase, glutathione S-transferase, and NAD (P) H:quinone oxidoreductase 1.
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4029094 Patel JM, Block ER: Cyclophosphamide-induced depression of the antioxidant defense mechanisms of the lung. Exp Lung Res. 1985;8(2-3):153-65.

We hypothesized that cyclophosphamide or one of its toxic metabolites, acrolein, may potentiate O2 toxicity by depressing lung antioxidant defense mechanisms.
Excised lungs were analyzed for reduced glutathione (GSH) content, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD), glutathione reductase (GSH-R), glutathione peroxidase (GSH-P), and superoxide dismutase (SOD) activities.
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16781455 Shao C, Roberts KN, Markesbery WR, Scheff SW, Lovell MA: Oxidative stress in head trauma in aging. Free Radic Biol Med. 2006 Jul 1;41(1):77-85. Epub 2006 Apr 3.

Analysis of 4-hydroxynonenal (4-HNE) and acrolein, neurotoxic by-products of lipid peroxidation, shows significant (P < 0.05) age-dependent increases in ipsilateral (IP) hippocampus 1 and 7 days post injury.
Glutathione reductase activity also showed an age-dependent decrease.
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11741210 Ren S, Slatterly JT: Inhibition of carboxyethylphosphoramide mustard formation from 4-hydroxycyclophosphamide by carmustine. AAPS PharmSci. 1999;1(3):E14.

The inhibition of ALDH1 may contribute to the observed lower incidence of toxicity when BCNU was split into 4 doses compared with single dose and coadministered with CY although dose-dependent effects of BCNU on glutathione and glutathione reductase are also likely to contribute.
The calculated %inhibition of ALDH1 activity by acrolein and BCNU in patients receiving BCNU in 4 split doses with CY was 81%, and it increased to 92% in single dose BCNU regimen.
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19408115 Jia Z, Zhu H, Li Y, Misra HP: Cruciferous nutraceutical 3H-1,2-dithiole-3-thione protects human primary astrocytes against neurocytotoxicity elicited by MPTP, MPP (+), 6-OHDA, HNE and acrolein. Neurochem Res. 2009 Nov;34(11):1924-34. Epub 2009 May 1.

In this study, we show that incubation of human primary astrocytes with micromolar concentrations (5-100 microM) of D3T for 24 h resulted in significant increases in the levels of reduced glutathione (GSH), glutathione reductase (GR), and the phase 2 enzyme NAD (P) H:quinone oxidoreductase 1 (NQO1).
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3421708 Miccadei S, Nakae D, Kyle ME, Gilfor D, Farber JL: Oxidative cell injury in the killing of cultured hepatocytes by allyl alcohol. Arch Biochem Biophys. 1988 Sep;265(2):302-10.


The killing of cultured hepatocytes by allyl alcohol depended on the metabolism of this hepatotoxin by alcohol dehydrogenase to the reactive electrophile, acrolein.
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