User:Reuben Chacko: Difference between revisions
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One of the CBI Molecules being studied in the University of Massachusetts Amherst Chemistry-Biology Interface Program at UMass Amherst and on display at the Molecular Playground. | One of the CBI Molecules being studied in the University of Massachusetts Amherst Chemistry-Biology Interface Program at UMass Amherst and on display at the Molecular Playground. | ||
""Glutathione"" | |||
'''Glutathione reductase''' | '''Glutathione reductase''' | ||
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This protein maintains a reducing environment inside cells by reducing glutathione disulfide to glutathione. Glutathione reductase or GSR catalyzes this reaction by attacking glutahione disulfide nucleophilically via the Cys63 residue. The Cys63 nucleophile itself is generated by the nucleophilic attack of | This protein maintains a reducing environment inside cells by reducing glutathione disulfide to glutathione. Glutathione reductase or GSR catalyzes this reaction by attacking glutahione disulfide nucleophilically via the Cys63 residue. The Cys63 nucleophile itself is generated by the nucleophilic attack of | ||
<scene name='User:Reuben_Chacko/Glutathione_reductase/2'> | <scene name='User:Reuben_Chacko/Glutathione_reductase/2'>Glutathione Reductase</scene> | ||
