DT-diaphorase maintains the reduced state of ubiquinones in lipid vesicles thereby promoting their antioxidant function

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 329-335

  Landi, Laura ^b   Fiorentini, Diana ^b   Galli, M Cristina ^b   Segura Aguilar, Juan ^b   Beyer, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Azocompounds; Coenzyme Q; DT diaphorase; Free radicals; Lipid peroxidation; Lipid vesicles; Quinone reductase; Ubiquinol; Ubiquinone

Indexed keywords

AZO COMPOUND; FREE RADICAL; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE (PHOSPHATE) DEHYDROGENASE (QUINONE); UBIQUINONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; AUTOOXIDATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIPID VESICLE; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY CHAIN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029859863     PISSN: 08915849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0891-5849(96)00294-8     Document Type: Article

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