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Physiol Mol Biol Plants. 2017 Apr;23(2):249-268. doi: 10.1007/s12298-017-0422-2. Epub 2017 Mar 10.

Glutathione in plants: biosynthesis and physiological role in environmental stress tolerance.

Physiology and molecular biology of plants : an international journal of functional plant biology

Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Kamrun Nahar, Taufika Islam Anee, Masayuki Fujita

Affiliations

  1. Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka, 1207 Bangladesh.
  2. Laboratory of Plant Stress Responses, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, Miki-cho, Kita-gun, Kagawa 761-0795 Japan.
  3. Department of Agricultural Botany, Faculty of Agriculture, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka, 1207 Bangladesh.

PMID: 28461715 PMCID: PMC5391355 DOI: 10.1007/s12298-017-0422-2

Abstract

Glutathione (GSH; γ-glutamyl-cysteinyl-glycine) is a small intracellular thiol molecule which is considered as a strong non-enzymatic antioxidant. Glutathione regulates multiple metabolic functions; for example, it protects membranes by maintaining the reduced state of both α-tocopherol and zeaxanthin, it prevents the oxidative denaturation of proteins under stress conditions by protecting their thiol groups, and it serves as a substrate for both glutathione peroxidase and glutathione

Keywords: Antioxidant; Glyoxalase system; Oxidative stress; Phytochelatin; Reactive oxygen species; Thiol

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