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Gluthathione peroxidase (gluthatione:hydrogen-peroxide oxidoreductase, EC 1.11.1.9) has been purified approximately 2700-fold from rat lung soluble fraction. The purified enzyme was shown to be homogeneous by sodium dodecyl sulfate/urea polyacrylamide gel electrphoresis. Selenium-75 tracer cochromatographed with the enzyme activity, indicating that rat lung soluble gluthathione peroxidase is a selenium enzyme. The enzyme had an approximate molecular weight of 80000 and contained four identical subunits. The optimal activity of the enzyme was at between pH 8.8 and 9.1. The enzyme had general specificity toward hydroperoxides, and high specificity for reduced glutathione. The kinetic behavior or the purified lung soluble glutathione peroxidase followed a ping-pong-like mechanism; the enzyme first reduced the lipid hydroperoxide substrate to the corresponding hydroxy fatty acid, then was regenerated to the native form by reduced glutathione.
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