Quinone Reductases of Higher Plants
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Structure and mechanism of cytosolic quinone reductases.
Introduction Quinones are ubiquitous dietary compounds. Reduction of quinones by one-electron reduction systems (cytochrome P450 reductases) results in the formation of reactive semiquinones that can be re-oxidized to quinones by molecular oxygen with the formation of superoxide radical (02-*). Superoxide can lead to the formation of other reactive oxygen species, including the highly mutagenic...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Biochemistry
سال: 1982
ISSN: 0014-2956,1432-1033
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1982.tb06838.x