Protein Information

Name catalase
Synonyms CAT; Catalase; Erythrocyte derived growth promoting factor; Carnitine O acetyltransferase; Carnitine acetylase; Carnitine acetyltransferase; CAT; Catalases…

Compound Information

Name sodium cyanide
CAS sodium cyanide (Na(CN))

Reference List

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16728955 Kang YS, Lee DH, Yoon BJ, Oh DC: Purification and characterization of a catalase from photosynthetic bacterium Rhodospirillum rubrum S1 grown under anaerobic conditions. J Microbiol. 2006 Apr;44(2):185-91.

Sodium cyanide, sodium azide, and hydroxylamine, all of which are known heme protein inhibitors, inhibited catalase activity by 50% at concentrations of 11.5 microM, 0.52 microM, and 0.11 microM, respectively.
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16716939 Kobayashi I, Tamura T, Sghaier H, Narumi I, Yamaguchi S, Umeda K, Inagaki K: Characterization of monofunctional catalase KatA from radioresistant bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans. J Biosci Bioeng. 2006 Apr;101(4):315-21.

The catalase activity of KatA was inhibited by sodium azide, sodium cyanide and 3-amino-1,2,4-triazole.
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6256411 Diamond RD, Haudenschild CC: Monocyte-mediated serum-independent damage to hyphal and pseudohyphal forms of Candida albicans in vitro. J Clin Invest. 1981 Jan;67(1):173-82.

Damage to hyphae by normal monocytes was inhibited by concentrations of sodium azide and sodium cyanide that primarily affect myeloperoxidase activity, as well as by halide-free conditions, catalase, and putative antagonists of hypochlorous acid or singlet oxygen.
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340471 Daimond RD, Krzesicki R: Mechanisms of attachment of neutrophils to Candida albicans pseudohyphae in the absence of serum, and of subsequent damage to pseudohyphae by microbicidal processes of neutrophils in vitro. J Clin Invest. 1978 Feb;61(2):360-9.

Damage to Candida by neutrophils was inhibited by agents known to act on neutrophil oxidative microbicidal mechanisms, including sodium cyanide, sodium azide, catalase, superoxide dismutase, and 1, 4 diazobicyclo (2, 2, 2) octane, a singlet oxygen quencher.
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1656946 Bynoe LA, Pou S, Gottsch JD, Rosen GM: Light-dependent spin trapping of hydroxyl radical from human erythrocytes. . Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1991 Sep 30;179(3):1305-10.

By inhibiting erythrocyte superoxide dismutase, catalase, and glutathione peroxidase with N,N-diethyldithiocarbamate or sodium cyanide, we demonstrate the light-dependent generation of hydroxyl radical in human erythrocytes using spin trapping/Electron Spin Resonance spectroscopy.
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14713308 Wang H, Cheng E, Brooke S, Chang P, Sapolsky R: Over-expression of antioxidant enzymes protects cultured hippocampal and cortical neurons from necrotic insults. J Neurochem. 2003 Dec;87(6):1527-34.

Prompted by this, we have generated herpes simplex virus-1 amplicon vectors over-expressing the genes for the antioxidant enzymes catalase (CAT) or glutathione peroxidase (GPX), both of which catalyze the degradation of hydrogen peroxide.
Moreover, each enzyme potently decreased the neurotoxicity induced by kainic acid, glutamate, sodium cyanide and oxygen/glucose deprivation.
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9353077 Whitehouse CA, Williams LR, Austin FE: Identification of superoxide dismutase activity in Borrelia burgdorferi. Infect Immun. 1997 Nov;65(11):4865-8.


None of the Lyme disease spirochetes tested possessed catalase or peroxidase activities.
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16169521 Xu KY, Kuppusamy P: Dual effects of copper-zinc superoxide dismutase. . Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2005 Nov 4;336(4):1190-3.

Sodium cyanide, histidine, and N,N'-diethyldithiocarbamate abolished (.) OH generation, implying that Cu may be responsible for dCuZnSOD-induced (.) OH formation.
Catalase eliminated () OH generation, suggesting that hydrogen peroxide may be involved in the mechanism of dCuZnSOD-mediated (.) OH production.
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6386516 Marani E, Rietveld WJ, Kooij M: Pubertal changes in the medio-basal hypothalamic area after neonatal suprachiasmatic nucleus lesions in the rat. Experientia. 1984 Oct 15;40(10):1146-9.


In order to get more insight into the mechanism by which the onset of puberty is controlled, a developmental study on the displacement of catalase- and dopamine-containing cells in the hypothalamic region was done in rats which received a neonatal lesion of the suprachiasmatic nucleus.
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11934248 Wang HT, Yang XL, Zhang ZH, Lu JL, Xu HB: Reactive oxygen species from mitochondria mediate SW480 cells apoptosis induced by Na2SeO3. Biol Trace Elem Res. 2002 Mar;85(3):241-54.


The intracellular ROS increase and apoptosis induced by Na2SeO3 were significantly decreased by superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase.
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1398713 Mukundan MA, Bamji MS: In vitro stimulation of microsomal diethyl nitrosamine deethylase activity by vitamin K3 (menadione). Indian J Biochem Biophys. 1992 Apr;29(2):201-3.

The vitamin also takes care of the inhibitory effect of the anaerobic conditions as well as those of cytochrome poisons like sodium azide and sodium cyanide, possibly through production of active oxygen species.
The enzyme was also stimulated by H2O2 and SOD and inhibited by catalase, thereby suggesting that H2O2 or some derivatives of it may be the active oxygen species involved in the reaction.
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2162328 Geffner JR, Minnucci F, Isturiz MA: Neutrophil-mediated cytotoxicity induced by secretory IgA. Immunol Lett. 1990 May;24(2):113-6.

Catalase completely impaired this non-specific cytotoxicity (NSC), while superoxide dismutase (SOD) significantly enhanced it, suggesting a key role for hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) in the lysis of target cells.
Three heme-enzyme inhibitors, sodium azide, sodium cyanide and 3-amino-1,2,4-triazole, did not decrease NSC, but significantly enhanced it, suggesting that the mechanism involved is not dependent upon myeloperoxidase (MPO).
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8392491 Ginsburg I, Misgav R, Gibbs DF, Varani J, Kohen R: Chemiluminescence in activated human neutrophils: role of buffers and scavengers. Inflammation. 1993 Jun;17(3):227-43.


CL and LDCL of activated PMNs was enhanced by aminotriazole, but strongly inhibited by diphenylene iodonium (an inhibitor of NADPH oxidase) by azide, sodium cyanide (CN), cimetidine, histidine, benzoate, DMTU and moderately by superoxide dismutase (SOD) and by deferoxamine LUCDCL was markedly inhibited only by SOD but was boosted by CN.
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2822303 Geffner JR, Giordano M, Palermo MS, Prat A, Serebrinsky GP, Isturiz MA: Neutrophil-mediated cytotoxicity triggered by immune complexes: the role of reactive oxygen metabolites. Clin Exp Immunol. 1987 Sep;69(3):668-75.


Three haem-enzyme inhibitors, sodium azide, sodium cyanide and 3-amino-1,2,4-triazole did not decrease neutrophil NSC, but markedly enhanced it.
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16630587 Zemlyak I, Nimon V, Brooke S, Moore T, McLaughlin J, Sapolsky R: Gene therapy in the nervous system with superoxide dismutase. . Brain Res. 2006 May 9;1088(1):12-8. Epub 2006 Apr 21.


We investigated the effects of antioxidant gene therapy on ROS accumulation after exposure to either sodium cyanide, kainic acid or oxygen glucose deprivation (OGD).
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3013779 Miyasaki KT, Wilson ME, Genco RJ: Killing of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans by the human neutrophil myeloperoxidase-hydrogen peroxide-chloride system. Infect Immun. 1986 Jul;53(1):161-5.


Most of the killing attributable to oxidative mechanisms is inhibited by sodium cyanide, which suggests that the myeloperoxidase-hydrogen peroxide-chloride (MPO-H2O2-Cl-) system may be a key factor in the oxidative killing process.
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7141693 Diamond RD, Haudenschild CC, Erickson NF 3rd: Monocyte-mediated damage to Rhizopus oryzae hyphae in vitro. Infect Immun. 1982 Oct;38(1):292-7.


As with neutrophils, monocyte-mediated damage of R. oryzae was significantly decreased by some inhibitors of oxidative metabolism and scavengers of the potentially microbicidal oxidative leukocyte products, which included 10 (-4) M sodium azide, 10 (-3) M sodium cyanide, catalase, 10 (-3) M histidine, 10 (-3) M tryptophan, and 10 (-4) M 1,4-diazobicyclo [2.2.2] octane but not superoxide dismutase, 1.4 X 10 (-2) M dimethyl sulfoxide, and 4.0 X 10 (-1) M mannitol.
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10775326 Regal KA, Schrag ML, Kent UM, Wienkers LC, Hollenberg PF: Mechanism-based inactivation of cytochrome P450 2B1 by 7-ethynylcoumarin: verification of apo-P450 adduction by electrospray ion trap mass spectrometry. Chem Res Toxicol. 2000 Apr;13(4):262-70.


No protection from inactivation was seen in the presence of nucleophiles (glutathione and sodium cyanide), an iron chelator (deferroxamine), or superoxide dismutase and catalase.
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