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Once obtained, H 2 O 2 can be degraded in mitochondria via the GSH redox system, employing glutathione peroxidases (Gpxs) and GRs, but also through peroxiredoxins (Prxs), a family of thiol-specific peroxidases

GSH, synthesized from glutamate, cysteine and glycine via glutamine cysteine ligase and GSH synthetase, serves as the primary antioxidant in mammalian cells

To this regard, GSH may also have direct anti-SARS-CoV-2 potential: indeed a computational study indicates that the binding of spike protein to ACE2 is maximal when ACE2-sulfur groups are in the form of disulfides and impaired when fully reduced to thiols: hence a prooxidant environment with low levels of GSH would favor viruses cellular entry (Hati and Bhattacharyya, 2020)

In a kinetic assay, 2-deoxyglucose (2-DG) and diamide are added together prior to an imaging time series