1. During the standard procedure for the preparation of rat hepatocytes, about half of the cellular GSH (reduced glutathione) is lost. 2. This loss is prevented by the addition of 0.1 mM-EGTA (but no EDTA) to the perfusion medium. 3. On incubation with and without EGTA, isolated hepatocytes prepared in the presence of EGTA lose GSH. This loss is prevented by near-physiological concentrations of methionine or homocysteine, but not of cysteine. 4. Cysteine, at concentrations above 0.2 mM, causes a loss of GSH probably by non-enzymic formation of a mixed disulphide. 5. Serine together with methionine or homocystein increases GSH above the value in cells from starved rats in vivo. This is taken to suggest that cystathionine may be a cysteine donor in the synthesis of gamma-glutamylcysteine, the precursor of GSH.
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March 15 1978
Maintenance of glutathione content is isolated hepatocyctes
Biochem J (1978) 170 (3): 627–630.
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J Viña, R Hems, H A Krebs; Maintenance of glutathione content is isolated hepatocyctes. Biochem J 15 March 1978; 170 (3): 627–630. doi: https://doi.org/10.1042/bj1700627
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