Glutathione is an essential metabolite required for resistance to oxidative stress in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Current Genetics

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 511-515

  Grant, Chris M ^a   MacIver, Fiona H ^a   Dawes, Ian W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Glutathione; Oxidative stress; Yeast

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; DITHIOTHREITOL; GLUTATHIONE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MERCAPTOETHANOL; REDUCING AGENT; TERT BUTYL HYDROPEROXIDE; THIOL GROUP;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE DISRUPTION; GLUTATHIONE METABOLISM; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030004354     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02426954     Document Type: Article

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