Mercaptopyruvate sulfurtransferase as a defense against cyanide toxication: Molecular properties and mode of detoxification

Histology and Histopathology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1277-1286

  Nagahara, N ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cyanide poisoning; Immunoelectron microscopy; Immunohistochemistry; Mercaptopyruvate sulfurtransferase; Rhodanese; Subcellular distribution; Tissue distribution

Indexed keywords

3 MERCAPTOPYRUVATE SULFURTRANSFERASE; 3 MERCAPTOPYRUVIC ACID; CYANIDE; METALLOPROTEIN; SULFURTRANSFERASE; THIOSULFATE SULFURTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CYANIDE POISONING; CYTOPLASM; DRUG DETOXIFICATION; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER TOXICITY; MITOCHONDRION; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; RAT; REVIEW; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CYANIDES; CYTOPLASM; HUMANS; METABOLIC DETOXICATION, DRUG; METALLOPROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RATS; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; SULFURTRANSFERASES; THIOSULFATE SULFURTRANSFERASE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0032871971     PISSN: 02133911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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