It is a very important antioxidant, participates in detoxification of certain drugs, toxic environmental chemicals, protects against lipid peroxidation and electrophiles, has antiviral effects, is involved in the biosynthesis of DNA, proteins, and leukotrienes, cell proliferation, apoptosis, neurotransmission, and neuromodulation
Lenton KJ, San AT, Therriault H, Cantin AM, Payette H, Wagner JR
For intravenous glutathione, the review identified only one placebo-controlled study and concluded that evidence was insufficient to support routine cosmetic use
In conclusion, we revealed novel structurefunction relationships of glutaredoxins, gained insights regarding the enzymatic conversion of glutathione- and non-glutathione disulfide substrates, and identified two distinct substrate interaction sites that include a scaffold residue and the conserved dual activator Lys105 in ScGrx7 and Lys26 in PfGrx