Purine nucleoside phosphorylase as a cytosolic arsenate reductase

Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 13-19

  Gregus, Zoltán ^a   Németi, Balázs ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Arsenate; Arsenite; Purine nucleoside phosphorylase; Reduction; Thiols

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC ACID; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; DITHIOTHREITOL; GUANINE; GUANOSINE; HYPOXANTHINE; MERCURY DERIVATIVE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PHOSPHATE; PURINE NUCLEOSIDE PHOSPHORYLASE; PURINE NUCLEOSIDE PHOSPHORYLASE INHIBITOR; RIBOSE 1 PHOSPHATE; ARSENIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ARSENITE TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ARSENOUS ACID DERIVATIVE; ASNA1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; ENZYME INHIBITOR; MULTIENZYME COMPLEX; NUCLEOSIDE; THIOL REAGENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIVER CYTOSOL; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; ANIMAL; CATALYSIS; CATTLE; CYTOSOL; DRUG ANTAGONISM; ENZYMOLOGY; GUINEA PIG; HAMSTER; IN VITRO STUDY; ION TRANSPORT; LIVER; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; RABBIT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPLEEN; SYRIAN HAMSTER; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; ARSENATES; ARSENITE TRANSPORTING ATPASES; ARSENITES; CATALYSIS; CATTLE; CRICETINAE; CYTOSOL; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GUINEA PIGS; ION PUMPS; LIVER; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; NUCLEOSIDES; PURINE-NUCLEOSIDE PHOSPHORYLASE; RABBITS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPLEEN; SULFHYDRYL REAGENTS;

EID: 0036848202     PISSN: 10966080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/70.1.13     Document Type: Article

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