Glutathione Centennial. Molecular Perspectives and Clinical Implications

Content: 
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Contributors, Pages ix-xiv
Preface, Page xv, Naoyaki Taniguchi, Taneaki Higashi, Yukiya Sakamoto, Alton Meister
1 - ON THE BIOCHEMISTRY OF GLUTATHIONE, Pages 3-21, Alton Meister
2 - GLUTATHIONE-LINKED ENZYMES IN DETOXICATION REACTIONS, Pages 23-34, Bengt Mannervik, Mikael Widersten, Philip G. Board
3 - THE ROLE OF GLUTATHIONE IN MITOCHONDRIA, Pages 35-55, Donald J. Reed, Kristin Olafsdottir
4 - REGULATION OF GLUTATHIONE LEVEL IN PRIMARY CULTURED HEPATOCYTES, Pages 57-71, Noriko Tateishi, Yukiya Sakamoto, Akira Takada, Shiro Bannai
5 - THERMODYNAMIC AND KINETIC CONSTRAINTS ON THIOL/DISULFIDE EXCHANGE INVOLVING GLUTATHIONE REDOX BUFFERS, Pages 73-87, Hiram F. Gilbert
6 - Regulation of Inhibitory Activity of Cysteine Proteinase Inhibitor (Cystatin β) by Glutathione Mediated Covalent Modification, Pages 89-100, Nobuhiko Katunuma, Eiki Kominami
7 - STRUCTURE AND CATALYTIC MECHANISM OF GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE, Pages 103-114, L. Flohé
8 - Regulation of Rat Glutathione Transferase P Gene Expression, Pages 115-128, Masami MURAMATSU, Masaharu SAKAI, Akihiko OKUDA
9 - REGULATION OF GLUTATHIONE S-TRANSFERASE GENE EXPRESSION, Pages 129-136, CECIL B. PICKETT
10 - CONSTRUCTION OF MOUSE GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE GENE AND ITS EXPRESSION, Pages 137-144, Kenji Soda, Manabu Sugimoto, Nobuyoshi Esaki, Hidehiko Tanaka, Paul R. Harrison
11 - REGULATION OF HUMAN GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE GENE EXPRESSION BY SELENIUM, Pages 145-160, Sunil Chada, Peter Newburger
12 - Escherichia coli K-12 MUTANTS LACKING γ-GLUTAMYLTRANSPEPTIDASE AND MOLECULAR CLONING OF ggt GENE, Pages 161-175, Hidehiko Kumagai, Hideyuki Suzuki, Takashi Echigo, Miho Shimizu, Tatsurokuro Tochikura
13 - HETEROGENEITY IN γ-GLUTAMYLTRANSPEPTIDASE STRUCTURE: EVIDENCE FOR O-LINKED GLYCOSYLATION AND TWO FORMS OF mRNA FOR THE RAT RENAL ENZYME, Pages 177-188, Rebecca P. Hughey, Richard A. Altman, Thomas C. Blochberger, Paul J. Curthoys, Shrima Y. Perera, Norman P. Curthoys
14 - GLUTATHIONE-DEGRADING ENZYMES OF BRUSH BORDER: MOLECULAR AND FUNCTIONAL ASPECTS, Pages 189-208, Suresh S. Tate
15 - ENZYMATIC AND MOLECULAR BASIS FOR CANCER ASSOCIATED CHANGES IN γ-GLUTAMYL TRANSPEPTIDASE, Pages 211-226, Naoyuki Taniguchi, Daitoku Sakamuro, Yukihiko Matsuda, Atsushi Nishikawa, Shigeru Fujii, Naotake Ogasawara, Hiroshi Yoshikawa
16 - INDUCTION OF γ-GLUTAMYLTRANSPEPTIDASE IN RAT LIVER EXPOSED TO CARCINOGEN WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CARCINOGEN-RESISTANT RATS, Pages 227-239, Taneaki Higashi, Yukiya Sakamoto
17 - GLUTATHIONE S-TRANSFERASES: STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION, Pages 241-257, B. Ketterer, J.B. Taylor, D.J. Meyer, B. Coles, S. Pemble, I.G. Cowell, K. Dixon
18 - PROPERTIES AND FUNCTIONS OF NEUTRAL AND ACIDIC GLUTATHIONE S-TRANSFERASES, Pages 259-270, Kiyomi Sato, Shigeki Tsuchida, Kimihiko Satoh, Ichiro Hatayama, Takashi Ishikawa, Katsuto Tamai
19 - A BIOCHEMICAL MECHANISM FOR THE OXIDATION OF GLUTATHIONE BY XENOBIOTIC THIOLS, Pages 271-281, D.M. Ziegler
20 - L-BUTHIONINE-SR-SULFOXIMINE: MECHANISM OF ACTION, RESOLUTION OF DIASTEREOMERS AND USE AS A CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC AGENT, Pages 285-299, Owen W. Griffith
21 - ACQUIRED RESISTANCE OF TUMOR CELLS TO L-PHENYLALANINE MUSTARD: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE DESIGN OF A CLINICAL TRIAL INVOLVING GLUTATHIONE DEPLETION, Pages 301-315, David T. Vistica, Shakeel Ahmad
22 - EFFECTS OF GLUTATHIONE AND GLUTATHIONE ISOPROPYL ESTER ON VASOSPASM IN SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE, Pages 317-331, H. Maeno, M. Yamamoto, A. Iwai, A. Fujihara, H. Shikama, K. Noguchi, T. Watanabe, M. Nishiyama, T. Hori, T. Asano
23 - THE ROLE OF GLUTATHIONE AND ITS EICOSANOID ADDUCTS IN EXPERIMENTAL HEPATITIS IN MICE, Pages 333-342, Albrecht Wendel
24 - THE EFFECT OF MANGANESE ON GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE ACTIVITY AND SELENIUM CONTENT IN RATS, Pages 343-353, Zhou Bao Chu, Meng Xian Zhong, Yu Wei Han, Zheng Shao Juan
25 - GLUTATHIONE CONJUGATES: TRANSPORT FROM THE CELL AND INTRACELLULAR EFFECTS, Pages 357-367, Helmut Sies, Theo Akerboom, Toshihisa Ishikawa
26 - GLUTATHIONE DISULFIDE-STIMULATED MG2+-ATPase OF HUMAN ERYTHROCYTES, Pages 369-380, Takahito Kondo, Yoshikazu Kawakami, Naoyuki Taniguchi
27 - DYNAMIC ASPECTS OF GLUTATHIONE METABOLISM AND TRANSPORT DURING OXIDATIVE STRESS, Pages 381-393, Masayasu Inoue, Masahiko Hirota, Kazuhiro Sugi, Shunji Kawamoto, Yukio Ando, Nobukazu Watanabe, Yoshimasa Morino
28 - HEPATIC GLUTATHIONE TRANSPORT, Pages 395-406, Neil Kaplowitz, Jose Fernandez-Checa, Murad Ookhtens
29 - REGULATION OF GLUTATHIONE LEVEL BY AMINO ACID TRANSPORT, Pages 407-421, Shiro Bannai, Tetsuro Ishii, Akira Takada, Noriko Tateishi
30 - ROLE OF GLUTATHIONE TRANSPORT IN EXTRAHEPATIC DETOXICATION, Pages 423-433, Tory M. Hagen, Dean P. Jones
Index, Pages 435-441