Glutathione reductase and lipoamide dehydrogenase have opposite stereospecificities for α-lipoic acid enantiomers

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 206, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 724-730

  Pick, Uri ^a   Haramaki, Nobuya ^b   Constantinescu, Anastasia ^b   Handelman, Garry J ^b   Tritschler, Hans J ^c   Packer, Lester ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ASTA MEDICA AG   (Germany)

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EID: 0028908878     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1995.1102     Document Type: Article

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