Glutathione peroxidase
Glutathione peroxidase (GPx) (EC 1.11.1.9) is the general name of an enzyme family with peroxidase activity whose main biological role is to protect the organism from oxidative damage. The biochemical function of glutathione peroxidase is to reduce lipid hydroperoxides to their corresponding alcohols and to reduce free hydrogen peroxide to water.
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Crystallographic structure of bovine glutathione peroxidase 1. | |||||||||
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| EC no. | 1.11.1.9 | ||||||||
| CAS no. | 9013-66-5 | ||||||||
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| IntEnz | IntEnz view | ||||||||
| BRENDA | BRENDA entry | ||||||||
| ExPASy | NiceZyme view | ||||||||
| KEGG | KEGG entry | ||||||||
| MetaCyc | metabolic pathway | ||||||||
| PRIAM | profile | ||||||||
| PDB structures | RCSB PDB PDBe PDBsum | ||||||||
| Gene Ontology | AmiGO / QuickGO | ||||||||
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| Symbol | GSHPx | ||||||||||
| Pfam | PF00255 | ||||||||||
| InterPro | IPR000889 | ||||||||||
| PROSITE | PDOC00396 | ||||||||||
| SCOP2 | 1gp1 / SCOPe / SUPFAM | ||||||||||
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