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Thioredoxins, by reducing disulfide bridges are one of the main participants that regulate cellular redox balance. In plants, the thioredoxin system is particularly complex. The most well-known thioredoxins are the chloroplastic ones, that participate in the regulation of enzymatic activities during the transition between light and dark phases. The mitochondrial system composed of NADPH-dependent thioredoxin reductase and type o thioredoxin has only recently been described. The type h thioredoxin group is better known. Yeast complementation experiments demonstrated that Arabidopsis thaliana thioredoxins h have divergent functions, at least in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. They have diverse affinities for different target proteins, most probably because of structural differences. However, plant thioredoxin h functions still have to be defined.
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Bréhélin, C., Laloi, C., Setterdahl, A.T. et al. Cytosolic, Mitochondrial Thioredoxins and Thioredoxin Reductases in Arabidopsis Thaliana . Photosynthesis Research 79, 295–304 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:PRES.0000017165.55488.ca
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