12.07.2015 Views

Handbook of Vitamin C Research

Handbook of Vitamin C Research

Handbook of Vitamin C Research

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS
  • No tags were found...

Create successful ePaper yourself

Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.

158Borut Poljsak and John G. Ionescuautooxidation reactions within the cell produce superoxide by addition <strong>of</strong> an electron tomolecular oxygen (Anderson and Phillips 1999). It was reported that O 2-˙ is produced fromascorbate (AH - ) autooxidation by dioxygen (Scarpa 1983), yet is has been shown (Buettner1993) that aerobic oxidation <strong>of</strong> ascorbate strictly requires a metal catalyst (Figure 1).Figure 2. The prevention <strong>of</strong> mercury II induced ascorbate oxidation by reduced glutathione.Figure 3. The prevention <strong>of</strong> cupper II induced ascorbate oxidation by reduced glutathione.

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!