... peroxidase Thioredoxin Peroxiredoxin Over 40 years ago ( Jensen, 1966 ; Loschen et al., 1971 ; Boveris et al., 1972 ; Boveris and Chance, 1973 ) it was discovered that mitochondria can produce reactive oxygen species (ROS; see Glossary). Since then, the realization that mitochondria may...

.... These responses indicate that the thioredoxin–peroxiredoxin system is possibly more frequently recruited to scavenge H 2 O 2 than the glutathione system. Isoforms of superoxide dismutase (SOD) are not ubiquitously induced in parallel, suggesting that SOD scavenging activity is sometimes sufficient...