With the continuous development of society, people pay more and more attention to health care products, especially antioxidant series. As a classic antioxidant product, glutathione gained widespread attention as soon as it came out.
What is glutathione?
Glutathione (glutathione,r-glutamyl cysteine +glycine, GSH), also known as γ-L-glutamyl-L-cysteine-glycine, it is a tripeptide containing γ-amide bond and thiol group. It is composed of glutamic acid (Glu), cysteine (Cys), and Glycine (Gly) and is a non-protein thiol tripeptide compound condensed through peptide bonds. It is rich in amino acids, peptides, vitamins, and trace elements. It is an active short peptide with a wide range of uses. It exists widely in animals and plants and plays an important role in living organisms.
There are two forms of glutathione: reduced (G-SH) and oxidized (G-S-S-G). The reduced glutathione accounts for the vast majority under physiological conditions.
Glutathione reductase can catalyze the interconversion between the two types, and the coenzyme of this enzyme can also provide NADPH required for pentose phosphate bypass metabolism.
Features:
Active group - -SH(Thiol) group, easy to be oxidized, dehydrogenated
Solubility: Glutathione is soluble in water, dilute alcohol, liquid ammonia, and dimethylformamide, but insoluble in ethanol, ether, and acetone.
Stability: The solid state of glutathione is relatively stable, and its aqueous solution is easily oxidized to oxidized glutathione (GSSH) in the air.
Characteristics: The main function of glutathione comes from the specific molecular formula of sulfhydryl (-SH), which is why glutathione smells of sulfur. This special smell is a unique sign of reduced glutathione.
Melting point: 189 ℃ -193℃
Isoelectric point: 5.93
What is the function of glutathione?
Glutathione plays an important role in Anti-oxidation:
Because GSH itself is susceptible to oxidation by certain substances, it can
protect many proteins and the sulfhydryl groups in other molecules are not
oxidized by harmful substances, thus ensuring the molecular physiology of
proteins and enzymes can function normally; there is a lot of glutathione in
human red blood cells, which protect red blood cells from the sulfhydryl group of
the upper protein is in a reduced state, and it is important to prevent
hemolysis.
Glutathione is widely used in health care products, cosmetics, food, agriculture, etc. The main mechanism of action of glutathione antioxidant, whitening:
1. Cysteine in glutathione can reduce the activity of tyrosinase.
2. Glutathione cysteine is an amino acid containing a thiol group, which has a strong nucleophilic effect, can quickly react with dopaquinone, and quickly forms a colorless dopa derivative, thus blocking the dopa to melanin change.
3. Free radicals can activate tyrosinase, while glutathione can eliminate free radicals and inhibit the activation of tyrosinase.
Glutathione is a very important amino acid derivative with very broad application prospects. As a reagent, glutathione is widely used in biochemical, medical, biological, and chemical research and determination.
With the continuous deepening of glutathione research, glutathione will have more uses in clinical and medical fields. In addition, glutathione is an ideal additive for preparing functional foods. As a health care and nutritional fortifier in food products, meat products, flour products, beverages, candies, and fermented foods, glutathione is also widely used in the food processing industry. As a food additive, glutathione is superior to other preservatives. and antioxidants, which are beneficial to human health. Developed countries such as Japan have widely used glutathione as a biologically active additive in various fields of food processing, such as adding glutathione to yogurt and baby food, which can act as a stabilizer, and is actively developed as a health food. . With the continuous development of my country's food processing industry and various health foods, glutathione will also be widely used in my country. Therefore, the production and research of glutathione have a very broad prospect.
Where to get glutathione?
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