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SUBMITTER: Matte A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7912311 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mattè Alessandro A Federti Enrica E Tibaldi Elena E Di Paolo Maria Luisa ML Bisello Giovanni G Bertoldi Mariarita M Carpentieri Andrea A Pucci Pietro P Iatchencko Iana I Wilson Anand B AB Riccardi Veronica V Siciliano Angela A Turrini Francesco F Kim Dae Won DW Choi Soo Young SY Brunati Anna Maria AM De Franceschi Lucia L
Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) 20210201 2
Peroxiredoxin-2 (Prx2) is the third most abundant cytoplasmic protein in red blood cells. Prx2 belongs to a well-known family of antioxidants, the peroxiredoxins (Prxs), that are widely expressed in mammalian cells. Prx2 is a typical, homodimeric, 2-Cys Prx that uses two cysteine residues to accomplish the task of detoxifying a vast range of organic peroxides, H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>, and peroxynitrite. Although progress has been made on functional characterization of Prx2, much still remains ...[more]