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Glutathione reductase (medicine)


glutathione reductase
<enzyme> An FAD containing enzyme, a dimer of 50 kD subunits.

It catalyses the NADP dependent reduction of glutathione disulphide (GSSG) to glutathione (GSH). This is an essential reaction that maintains a GSH:GSSG ratio in the cytoplasm of _500:1.