Protein Information

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

Compound Information

Name rotenone
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Reference List

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6207776 Satrustegui J, Richter C: The role of hydroperoxides as calcium release agents in rat brain mitochondria. Arch Biochem Biophys. 1984 Sep;233(2):736-40.

In the presence of succinate and rotenone, hydroperoxide induces only a very limited oxidation of pyridine nucleotides, most probably due to the low level of glutathione peroxidase (EC 1.11.1.9) and glutathione reductase (EC 1.6.4.2) found in brain mitochondria.
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8510014 Rodeheaver DP, Schnellmann RG: Extracellular acidosis ameliorates metabolic-inhibitor-induced and potentiates oxidant-induced cell death in renal proximal tubules. J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 1993 Jun;265(3):1355-60.

Cell death produced by the mitochondrial inhibitors rotenone, antimycin A, carbonyl cyanide p-trifluoromethoxyphenylhydrazone and oligomycin and by the ion exchangers valinomycin, nigericin and monensin was ameliorated by reducing extracellular pH (pHe) from 7.4 to 6.4.
Because a decrease in pHe resulted in an increase in lipid peroxidation and in glutathione disulfide formation, and caused a decrease in glutathione peroxidase and glutathione reductase activities, the mechanism of this potentiation is most likely the result of an increase in free-radical production or a decrease in free-radical detoxification.
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7532384 Duval DL, Sieg DJ, Billings RE: Regulation of hepatic nitric oxide synthase by reactive oxygen intermediates and glutathione. Arch Biochem Biophys. 1995 Feb 1;316(2):699-706.

Glutathione depletion by diethylmaleate, which conjugates reduced glutathione, 1,3-bis (chloroethyl)-1-nitrosourea (BCNU), a glutathione reductase inhibitor, or buthionine sulfoxamine, a glutathione synthesis inhibitor, abolishes or reduces NOS induction in TNF alpha-treated hepatocytes, whereas N-acetylcysteine has little effect.
NOS induction in TNF alpha-treated cells is reduced by rotenone, a mitochondrial complex 1 inhibitor.
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19096101 Takahashi T, Okuno M, Okamoto T, Kishi T: NADPH-dependent coenzyme Q reductase is the main enzyme responsible for the reduction of non-mitochondrial CoQ in cells. Biofactors. 2008;32(1-4):59-70.


We purified an NADPH-dependent coenzyme Q reductase (NADPH-CoQ reductase) in rat liver cytosol and compared its enzymatic properties with those of the other CoQ10 reductases such as NADPH: quinone acceptor oxidoreductase 1 (NQO1), lipoamide dehydrogenase, thioredoxine reductase and glutathione reductase.
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11124972 Tretter L, Adam-Vizi V: Inhibition of Krebs cycle enzymes by hydrogen peroxide: A key role of [alpha]-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase in limiting NADH production under oxidative stress. J Neurosci. 2000 Dec 15;20(24):8972-9.

The rotenone-induced increase in reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (phosphate) [NAD (P) H] fluorescence reflecting the amount of NADH available for the respiratory chain was also diminished by H (2) O (2), and the effect exerted at small concentrations ((BCNU), an inhibitor of glutathione reductase.
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15904944 Molina-Jimenez MF, Sanchez-Reus MI, Cascales M, Andres D, Benedi J: Effect of fraxetin on antioxidant defense and stress proteins in human neuroblastoma cell model of rotenone neurotoxicity. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol. 2005 Dec 15;209(3):214-25.

Thus, these considerations prompted us to investigate the way in which fraxetin and myricetin affect the endogenous antioxidant defense system, such as Mn and CuZn superoxide dismutase (MnSOD, CuZnSOD), catalase, glutathione reductase (GR), and glutathione peroxidase (GPx) on rotenone neurotoxicity in neuroblastoma cells.
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1584202 Peinado J, Florindo J, Lopez-Barea J: Glutathione reductase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae undergoes redox interconversion in situ and in vivo. Mol Cell Biochem. 1992 Mar 25;110(2):135-43.

Greater changes were observed in the presence of 1.5 microM rotenone: enzymatic activity descended to 23% of the control value, while the NADH/NAD+ and NADPH/NADP+ ratios rose to 171% and 262% of their initial values, respectively.
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14634020 Zoccarato F, Cavallini L, Alexandre A: Respiration-dependent removal of exogenous H2O2 in brain mitochondria: inhibition by Ca2+. J Biol Chem. 2004 Feb 6;279(6):4166-74. Epub 2003 Nov 20.

Succinate-dependent H2O2 is inhibited by rotenone, decreased DeltaPsi, as described previously, and by ruthenium red and glutamate/malate.
H2O2 removal in mitochondria is largely dependent on glutathione peroxidase and glutathione reductase.
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7326006 Holland MK, Storey BT: Oxygen metabolism of mammalian spermatozoa. Biochem J. 1981 Aug 15;198(2):273-80.

This endogenous rate was unaffected by rotenone, but stimulated 4-fold by antimycin A.
Rabbit spermatozoa have glutathione peroxidase and glutathione reductase activities, but these seem to play little role in removal of H (2) O (2) generated.
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8403080 Snyder JW, Alexander GM, Ferraro TN, Grothusen JR, Farber JL: N-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium (MPP+) potentiates the killing of cultured hepatocytes by catecholamines. Chem Biol Interact. 1993 Sep;88(2-3):209-23.

The killing of cultured hepatocytes by dopamine and 6-hydroxydopamine was enhanced following inhibition of glutathione reductase by 1,3-bis (2-chloroethyl)-1-nitrosourea (BCNU), a manipulation known to sensitize such cells to an oxidative stress.
The toxicity of catecholamines was also potentiated by the mitochondrial site I (NADH dehydrogenase) inhibitor rotenone.
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8394729 Silva JM, O'Brien PJ: Molecular mechanisms of SR 4233-induced hepatocyte toxicity under aerobic versus hypoxic conditions. Br J Cancer. 1993 Sep;68(3):484-91.

The increased respiration was inhibited by the respiratory inhibitors KCN and antimycin A but not by rotenone.
SR 4233 however induced cyanide-resistant respiration, an indicator of redox cycling mediated oxidative stress and became cytotoxic if hepatocyte catalase or glutathione reductase was inactivated.
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6229605 Vitorica J, Machado A, Satrustegui J: Age-dependent variations in peroxide-utilizing enzymes from rat brain mitochondria and cytoplasm. J Neurochem. 1984 Feb;42(2):351-6.

Glutathione peroxidase and glutathione reductase distributions indicate that both enzymes are located in the cytoplasm and in the matrix space of "synaptosomal" and "free" mitochondria.
On the other hand, catalase distribution parallels that of NADH-cytochrome c reductase (rotenone-insensitive), and appears to be associated with the outer membrane of brain mitochondria.
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15710606 Zoccarato F, Toscano P, Alexandre A: Dopamine-derived dopaminochrome promotes H (2) O (2) release at mitochondrial complex I: stimulation by rotenone, control by Ca (2+), and relevance to Parkinson disease. J Biol Chem. 2005 Apr 22;280(16):15587-94. Epub 2005 Feb 14.

Mitochondrial removal of H (2) O (2) monoamine, formed by either oxidase activity or DACHR, was performed largely by glutathione peroxidase and glutathione reductase, which were negatively regulated by low intramitochondrial Ca (2+) levels.
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6317750 Kiyotaki C, Peisach J, Bloom BR: Oxygen metabolism in cloned macrophage cell lines: glucose dependence of superoxide production, metabolic and spectral analysis. J Immunol. 1984 Feb;132(2):857-66.


O2- production in J774.16 cells was inhibited by some agents known to block mitochondrial electron transport before coenzyme Q, such as rotenone and tetrathiafulvalene, whereas antimycin A enhanced O2- production.
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3020812 Moore GA, O'Brien PJ, Orrenius S: Menadione (2-methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone)-induced Ca2+ release from rat-liver mitochondria is caused by NAD (P) H oxidation. Xenobiotica. 1986 Sep;16(9):873-82.


Incubation of rat-liver mitochondria with menadione in the presence of succinate and rotenone resulted in rapid glutathione and NAD (P) H oxidation followed by Ca2+ release and mitochondrial swelling.
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1540380 Kinnula VL, Whorton AR, Chang LY, Crapo JD: Regulation of hydrogen peroxide generation in cultured endothelial cells. . Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 1992 Feb;6(2):175-82.


Furthermore, inhibition of the mitochondrial respiratory chain (rotenone, antimycin A) or microsomal cytochrome P-450 (8-methoxypsoralen) did not change extracellular H2O2 release or intracellular H2O2 production (at peroxisomes) by endothelial cells or cells in which glutathione reductase was inactivated.
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9377792 Ribeiro SM, Campello AP, Nascimento AJ, Kluppel ML: Effect of amiodarone (AMD) on the antioxidant enzymes, lipid peroxidation and mitochondrial metabolism. Cell Biochem Funct. 1997 Sep;15(3):145-52.


The results confirm the effects of AMD on complex I and permit the placing of this drug in class A of the classification of Knobeloch, together with rotenone, amytal and chaotropic agents.
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