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Ascorbate peroxidase – a hydrogen peroxide-scavenging enzyme in plants

✍ Scribed by Kozi Asada

Book ID
110900493
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1992
Tongue
English
Weight
737 KB
Volume
85
Category
Article
ISSN
0031-9317

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Ascorbate peroxidase (APOX) activity, which catalyzes the oxidation of ascorbic acid with the concurrent reduction of hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ), was found in larvae of Helicoverpa zea. Since insects apparently lack a Se-dependent glutathione peroxidase and since catalase has a low affinity for H