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Antioxidant Mechanisms of Enzymes and Proteins

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Oxidative Stress and Antioxidant Defenses in Biology

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While the aerobic life-style offers great advantages, it is subject to oxygen toxicity due to endogenous activation of ground-state molecular oxygen to the superoxide anion radical (O ·−2 ), hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and hydroxyl radical (OH). Thus, “any organism that avails itself of the benefits of oxygen does so at the cost of maintaining an elaborate system of defenses against these intermediates,” (Fridovich, 1983).

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Ahmad, S. (1995). Antioxidant Mechanisms of Enzymes and Proteins. In: Ahmad, S. (eds) Oxidative Stress and Antioxidant Defenses in Biology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9689-9_7

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