Enzymatic reduction of arsenic compounds in mammalian systems: Reduction of arsenate to arsenite by human liver arsenate reductase

Chemical Research in Toxicology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 26-30

  Radabaugh, Timothy R ^a   Aposhian, H Vasken ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC ACID; ARSENIC DERIVATIVE; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; CALCIUM; COPPER; DITHIOTHREITOL; GLUTATHIONE; LIVER ENZYME; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; METHANEARSONIC ACID; OXIDOREDUCTASE; THIOCTIC ACID; THIOL; THIOREDOXIN; ZINC;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; REDUCTION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ARSENATES; ARSENICALS; ARSENITE TRANSPORTING ATPASES; ARSENITES; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; DITHIOTHREITOL; ENZYME STABILITY; HEAT; HUMANS; ION PUMPS; KINETICS; LINEAR MODELS; LIVER; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0033958512     PISSN: 0893228X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/tx990115k     Document Type: Article

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