Protein Information

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

Compound Information

Name mercuric chloride
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10390852 Hussain S, Atkinson A, Thompson SJ, Khan AT: Accumulation of mercury and its effect on antioxidant enzymes in brain, liver, and kidneys of mice. J Environ Sci Health B. 1999 Jul;34(4):645-60.

The effect of mercuric chloride (HgCl2) on the activities of catalase, superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione peroxidase (GPx), glutathione reductase (GR) and its effect on glutathione (GSH) content were evaluated in different organs (liver, kidneys, and brain) of mice after administration at 0, 0.25, 0.5 and 1.0 mg/kg/day for 14 days.
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17706852 Sharma MK, Sharma A, Kumar A, Kumar M: Spirulina fusiformis provides protection against mercuric chloride induced oxidative stress in Swiss albino mice. Food Chem Toxicol. 2007 Dec;45(12):2412-9. Epub 2007 Jun 28.

The activities of antioxidants enzymes superoxide dismutase, catalase and glutathione-S-transferase were also concomitantly restored to near normal level by Spirulina supplementation to mercuric chloride intoxicated mice.
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17436531 Kavitha AV, Jagadeesan G: Role of Tribulus terrestris (Linn.) (Zygophyllacea) against mercuric chloride induced nephrotoxicity in mice, Mus musculus (Linn.). J Environ Biol. 2006 May;27(2 Suppl):397-400.

At median-lethal dose of mercuric chloride (12.9 mg/kg body weight), the whole kidney tissue showed an increased level of lipid peroxidation (LPO), glutathione peroxidase (GPx) activities and simultaneously a decreased level of superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), reduced glutathione (GSH).
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15977196 Bando I, Reus MI, Andres D, Cascales M: Endogenous antioxidant defence system in rat liver following mercury chloride oral intoxication. J Biochem Mol Toxicol. 2005;19(3):154-61.


Superoxide dismutases, catalase, and glutathion peroxidase are proteins involved in the endogenous antioxidant defence system.
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8872981 Nath KA, Croatt AJ, Likely S, Behrens TW, Warden D: Renal oxidant injury and oxidant response induced by mercury. Kidney Int. 1996 Sep;50(3):1032-43.

The role of oxidative stress in mercuric chloride (HgCl2)-induced nephrotoxicity is uncertain and controversial.
HgCl2 exerts a dose-dependent cytotoxicity which is attenuated by pyruvate and catalase.
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11141179 Henzler T, Steudle E: Transport and metabolic degradation of hydrogen peroxide in Chara corallina: model calculations and measurements with the pressure probe suggest transport of H (2) O (2) across water channels. J Exp Bot. 2000 Dec;51(353):2053-66.

When water channels were inhibited with the blocker mercuric chloride (HgCl (2)), the permeabilities of both water and H (2) O (2) were substantially reduced.
A mathematical model is presented that describes permeation of hydrogen peroxide across a cell membrane and the implications of solute decomposition by catalase inside the cell.
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16674986 Cargnelutti D, Tabaldi LA, Spanevello RM, de Oliveira Jucoski G, Battisti V, Redin M, Linares CE, Dressler VL, de Moraes Flores EM, Nicoloso FT, Morsch VM, Schetinger MR: Mercury toxicity induces oxidative stress in growing cucumber seedlings. Chemosphere. 2006 Nov;65(6):999-1006. Epub 2006 May 3.


In this study, the effects of exogenous mercury (HgCl (2)) on time-dependent changes in the activities of antioxidant enzymes (catalase and ascorbate peroxidase), lipid peroxidation, chlorophyll content and protein oxidation in cucumber seedlings (Cucumis sativus L.) were investigated.
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19917674 Venturini C, Beatson SA, Djordjevic SP, Walker MJ: Multiple antibiotic resistance gene recruitment onto the enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli virulence plasmid. FASEB J. 2010 Apr;24(4):1160-6. Epub 2009 Nov 16.

Determination of the 111,481-bp sequence of pO26-CRL revealed genes encoding a functional enterohemolysin operon (ehxCABD), STEC-specific extracellular serine protease (espP), putative EHEC adhesin (toxB), catalase/peroxidase (katP), and myristoyl transferase (msbB) involved in lipid A synthesis.
A 22,609-bp Tn21 derivative is inserted within the conjugal transfer gene traC and encodes resistance to trimethoprim, streptomycin, sulfathiozole, kanamycin, neomycin, beta-lactams, and mercuric chloride.
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19382722 Zhao JQ, Wen YF, Bhadauria M, Nirala SK, Sharma A, Shrivastava S, Shukla S, Agrawal OP, Mathur R: Protective effects of propolis on inorganic mercury induced oxidative stress in mice. Indian J Exp Biol. 2009 Apr;47(4):264-9.

Exposure to mercuric chloride (HgCl2; 5 mg/kg; ip) induced oxidative stress by increasing lipid peroxidation and oxidized glutathione level along with concomitant decrease in glutathione and various antioxidant enzymes.
Activities of antioxidants enzymes, i.e., superoxide dismutase, catalase, glutathione-S-transferase and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase were also restored concomitantly towards control after propolis administration.
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9022032 Wolfreys K, Oliveira DB: Alterations in intracellular reactive oxygen species generation and redox potential modulate mast cell function. Eur J Immunol. 1997 Jan;27(1):297-306.

The administration of mercuric chloride (HgCl2), gold compounds, or D-penicillamine to Brown Norway (BN) rats causes a T helper (Th) 2 cell-associated autoimmune syndrome characterized by the production of a number of autoantibodies, marked elevation of serum IgE concentration, and tissue injury in the form of a vasculitis and arthritis.
Inhibition of ROS formation by desferrioxamine or catalase diminished the enhancement of IgE-mediated serotonin release caused by HgCl2, as did replenishment of intracellular glutathione. 2-Mercaptoethanol exacerbated the toxicity of HgCl2, perhaps due to the formation of a lipophilic complex that enhanced HgCl2 uptake.
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11053052 Nava M, Romero F, Quiroz Y, Parra G, Bonet L, Rodriguez-Iturbe B: Melatonin attenuates acute renal failure and oxidative stress induced by mercuric chloride in rats. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2000 Nov;279(5):F910-8.

We also determined the renal content of malondialdehyde (MDA) and glutathione (GSH) and the activities of glutathione peroxidase and catalase.
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20229497 Agarwal R, Goel SK, Behari JR: Detoxification and antioxidant effects of curcumin in rats experimentally exposed to mercury. J Appl Toxicol. 2010 Mar 12.

Therefore, the detoxification and antioxidant effects of curcumin were examined to determine its prophylactic/therapeutic role in rats experimentally exposed to mercury (in the from of mercuric chloride-HgCl (2), 12 micromol kg (-1) b.w. single intraperitoneal injection).
Curcumin treatment (80 mg kg (-1) b.w. daily for 3 days, orally) was found to have a protective effect on mercury-induced oxidative stress parameters, namely, lipid peroxidation and glutathione levels and superoxide dismutase, glutathione peroxidase and catalase activities in the liver, kidney and brain.
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7680428 Sugiyama M, Tsuzuki K, Haramaki N: DNA single-strand breaks and cytotoxicity induced by sodium chromate (VI) in hydrogen peroxide-resistant cell lines. Mutat Res. 1993 Apr;299(2):95-102.


Catalase activity in resistant cells was 2-fold and the cellular content of glutathione was 3-fold that in parental cells.
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17516994 Augusti PR, Conterato GM, Somacal S, Einsfeld L, Ramos AT, Hosomi FY, Graca DL, Emanuelli T: Effect of lycopene on nephrotoxicity induced by mercuric chloride in rats. Basic Clin Pharmacol Toxicol. 2007 Jun;100(6):398-402.

Glutathione peroxidase and catalase activities were enhanced (approximately 71% and approximately 41%), while superoxide dismutase activity was depressed (approximately 44%) in HgCl (2)-treated rats when compared to control and these effects were prevented by lycopene.
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17634687 Agarwal R, Behari JR: Role of selenium in mercury intoxication in mice. Ind Health. 2007 Jun;45(3):388-95.


Studies were conducted to examine the effect of pre and post-treatment of selenium in mercury intoxication (20 micromole/ kg b.w. each given intraperitoneally) in mice in terms of lipid peroxidation (LPO), glutathione (GSH) content, activities of superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione peroxidase (GPx), catalase (CAT) and mercury concentration in liver, kidney and brain.
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17207565 Sarwar Alam M, Kaur G, Jabbar Z, Javed K, Athar M: Eruca sativa seeds possess antioxidant activity and exert a protective effect on mercuric chloride induced renal toxicity. Food Chem Toxicol. 2007 Jun;45(6):910-20. Epub 2006 Nov 29.

Oxidative modulation of renal tissues following HgCl (2) exposure was evident from a significant elevation in lipid peroxidation and attenuation in glutathione (GSH) contents and activities of antioxidant enzymes viz., catalase (CAT), glutathione peroxidase (GPX), superoxide dismutase (SOD) and glutathione reductase (GR).
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7896172 Girardi G, Elias MM: Mercuric chloride effects on rat renal redox enzymes activities: SOD protection. Free Radic Biol Med. 1995 Jan;18(1):61-6.

Glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) and catalase (Cat) activities were measured in kidney homogenates from rats with different nonprotein sulfhydrils levels and different mercury content.
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19636703 Monteiro DA, Rantin FT, Kalinin AL: Inorganic mercury exposure: toxicological effects, oxidative stress biomarkers and bioaccumulation in the tropical freshwater fish matrinxa, Brycon amazonicus (Spix and Agassiz, 1829). Ecotoxicology. 2010 Jan;19(1):105-23. Epub 2009 Jul 28.


Increases in superoxide dismutase, catalase, glutathione peroxidase (GPx), glutathione S-transferase (GST) and glutathione reductase (GR) were observed in all tissues after HgCl (2) exposure, except for white muscle GR activity and hepatic GPx.
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9712749 Gobert AP, Semballa S, Daulouede S, Lesthelle S, Taxile M, Veyret B, Vincendeau P: Murine macrophages use oxygen- and nitric oxide-dependent mechanisms to synthesize S-nitroso-albumin and to kill extracellular trypanosomes. Infect Immun. 1998 Sep;66(9):4068-72.

S nitrosylation was confirmed by the Saville reaction, using mercuric chloride.
The immunoenzymatic signal decreased by 66 and 30% when superoxide dismutase and catalase, respectively, were added to the culture medium of macrophages from infected mice.
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18758054 Ghosh A, Sil PC: A protein from Cajanus indicus Spreng protects liver and kidney against mercuric chloride-induced oxidative stress. Biol Pharm Bull. 2008 Sep;31(9):1651-8.

Intraperitoneal administration of HgCl (2) at a dose of 5 mg/kg body weight for 1 d significantly reduced the activities of antioxidant enzymes like superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT) and glutathione peroxidase (GPx).
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19406194 Brandao R, Borges LP, Nogueira CW: Concomitant administration of sodium 2,3-dimercapto-1-propanesulphonate (DMPS) and diphenyl diselenide reduces effectiveness of DMPS in restoring damage induced by mercuric chloride in mice. Food Chem Toxicol. 2009 Aug;47(8):1771-8. Epub 2009 May 3.

Thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances (TBARS), ascorbic acid and Hg (2+) levels and glutathione S-transferase (GST) and catalase (CAT) activities were carried out in kidney.
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18187036 Folmer V, Pedroso N, Matias AC, Lopes SC, Antunes F, Cyrne L, Marinho HS: H2O2 induces rapid biophysical and permeability changes in the plasma membrane of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2008 Apr;1778(4):1141-7. Epub 2008 Jan 8.

Moreover, a 40% decrease in plasma membrane permeability to H2O2 was observed at 15min with a concomitant two-fold increase in catalase activity.
H2O2 diffusion through the plasma membrane in S. cerevisiae cells is not mediated by aquaporins since the H2O2 permeability constant is not altered in the presence of the aquaporin inhibitor mercuric chloride.
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17881112 Augusti PR, Conterato GM, Somacal S, Sobieski R, Spohr PR, Torres JV, Charao MF, Moro AM, Rocha MP, Garcia SC, Emanuelli T: Effect of astaxanthin on kidney function impairment and oxidative stress induced by mercuric chloride in rats. Food Chem Toxicol. 2008 Jan;46(1):212-9. Epub 2007 Aug 14.

Glutathione peroxidase and catalase activities were enhanced, while superoxide dismutase activity was depressed in HgCl (2)-treated rats when compared to control and these effects were prevented by ASX.
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12781854 Farina M, Soares FA, Feoli A, Roehring C, Brusque AM, Rotta L, Perry ML, Souza DO, Rocha JB: In vitro effects of selenite and mercuric chloride on liver thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances and non-protein thiols from rats: influences of dietary cholesterol and polyunsaturated and saturated fatty acids. Nutrition. 2003 Jun;19(6):531-5.

Catalase activity was higher in animals fed diets containing soybean oil.
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17944542 Franco JL, Braga HC, Stringari J, Missau FC, Posser T, Mendes BG, Leal RB, Santos AR, Dafre AL, Pizzolatti MG, Farina M: Mercurial-induced hydrogen peroxide generation in mouse brain mitochondria: protective effects of quercetin. Chem Res Toxicol. 2007 Dec;20(12):1919-26. Epub 2007 Oct 19.

These oxidative phenomena were prevented by co-incubation with quercetin or catalase.
In this work, we have examined the potential protective effects of three compounds (7-prenyloxy-6-methoxycoumarin, quercetin, and 1,5-dihidroxi-2,3-dimethoxy xanthone) from Polygala species against MeHg- and mercuric chloride (HgCl2)-induced disruption of mitochondrial function under in vitro conditions using mitochondrial-enriched fractions from mouse brain.
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12110286 Aleo MF, Morandini F, Bettoni F, Tanganelli S, Vezzola A, Giuliani R, Steimberg N, Apostoli P, Mazzoleni G: Antioxidant potential and gap junction-mediated intercellular communication as early biological markers of mercuric chloride toxicity in the MDCK cell line. Toxicol In Vitro. 2002 Aug;16(4):457-65.

The cell glutathione (GSH) content and the activity of glutathione peroxidase (Gpx) and catalase (Cat), two enzymes engaged in the H (2) O (2) degradation, were quantified.
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15466269 Jo SK, Hu X, Yuen PS, Aslamkhan AG, Pritchard JB, Dear JW, Star RA: Delayed DMSO administration protects the kidney from mercuric chloride-induced injury. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2004 Oct;15(10):2648-54.

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9530530 Anuradha B, Rajeswari M, Varalakshmi P: Degree of peroxidative status in neuronal tissues by different routes of inorganic mercury administration. Drug Chem Toxicol. 1998 Feb;21(1):47-55.

Mercuric chloride was administered by three routes--subcutaneous, intramuscular and intraperitoneal to adult female Wistar rats.
All the experimental groups show high levels of reduced glutathione and increased activities of glutathione peroxidase, superoxide dismutase and catalase.
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18405108 Jagadeesan G, Sankarsami Pillai S: Hepatoprotective effects of taurine against mercury induced toxicity in rats. J Environ Biol. 2007 Oct;28(4):753-6.

The animals were treated with sublethal dose of mercuric chloride (2 mg/kg body wt.) for 30 days.
During the mercury treatment, the level ofAspartate transaminase (AST), Alanine transaminase (ALT) and Alkaline phosphatase (ALP) in serum and lipid peroxidation (LPO) in liver tissue significantly increased whereas Glutathione (GSH), Glutathione peroxidase (GPx), Catalase (CAT) and Superoxide dismutase (SOD) were simultaneously decreased in the liver tissue.
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12180707 Ferrat L, Romeo M, Gnassia-Barelli M, Pergent-Martini C: Effects of mercury on antioxidant mechanisms in the marine phanerogam Posidonia oceanica. Dis Aquat Organ. 2002 Jul 8;50(2):157-60.


Biochemical markers of oxidative stress such as catalase activity, glutathione S-transferase (GST) activity and levels of lipid peroxidation evaluated in terms of thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS) were measured in the sheaths of the marine phanerogam Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile experimentally exposed to 0.01, 0.1 and 1 microgHg l (-1) for 48 h.
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2219185 Pfaller W, Gstraunthaler G, Willinger CC: Morphology of renal tubular damage from nephrotoxins. Toxicol Lett. 1990 Sep;53(1-2):39-43.

Quantitative morphological-stereological-analysis of at least two, the mercuric chloride- and the maleate-induced experimental models of toxic acute renal failure, show a very early substantial loss of ATP-generating mitochondrial inner membrane surface as well as substantial decrease in those functions protecting cells against oxidative or auto-oxidative processes, i.e. glutathione content, activities of the free-radical-scavenging systems superoxide dismutase, glutathione peroxidase and glutathione reductase and catalase.
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15092159 Subhadra AV, Nanda AK, Behera PK, Panda BB: Acceleration of catalase and peroxidase activities in Lemna minor L. and Allium cepa L. in response to low levels of aquatic mercury. Environ Pollut. 1991;69(2-3):169-79.

Following a 96-h exposure of plants to nutrient medium contaminated with known levels of mercuric chloride (HgCl (2)), 0.001 to 4 mg litre (-1) (0.0007 to 2.95 mg Hg litre (-1)) or methyl mercuric chloride (MeHgCl (2)), 0.0001 to 0.1 mg litre (-1) (0.0007 to 0.07 mg Hg litre (-1)), the physiological endpoints measured were the growth of fronds (Lemna minor) or roots (Allium cepa), and catalase and peroxidase activities in both plant assays.
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19576259 Rao MV, Chhunchha B: Protective role of melatonin against the mercury induced oxidative stress in the rat thyroid. Food Chem Toxicol. 2010 Jan;48(1):7-10. Epub 2009 Jul 1.

Present study investigated the protective role of melatonin (MLT, 5mg/kg body wt., ip) against the long term effects of mercuric chloride (MC; 2 and 4 mg/kg body wt., po) in the thyroid gland of the rats through certain antioxidative indices like superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione peroxidase (GPx), glutathione reductase (GR), glutathione (GSH), catalase (CAT) and lipid peroxidation (LPO), other biochemical parameters such as succinate dehydrogenase (SDH), adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase), acid phosphatase (ACPase) and alkaline phosphatase (ALPase) were also measured.
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2260496 Meguro T, Ishii K, Ogata M: Exhaled metallic mercury in acatalasemic, hypocatalasemic and normal mice injected with mercury (II) chloride. Acta Med Okayama. 1990 Oct;44(5):251-6.

To clarify the relationship between the catalase activity in mouse organs and the amounts of metallic mercury exhaled, normal, homozygous hypocatalasemic and acatalasemic mice were injected with mercuric chloride.
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