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What is "protein redox conformation"?

Chemistry Asked by CowperKettle on October 5, 2021

From an article by Frye et al. [1]:

Reduced glutathione (GSH) is the major intracellular redox buffer and is essential in free radical scavenging, redox homeostasis, maintenance of protein redox conformation and regulation of redox sensitive enzyme activity.

What is "maintenance of protein redox conformation"? Is it just fancy phrasing for "keeping proteins properly reduced, but not too much reduced, and properly oxidized, but not too much oxidized?

Reference

  1. Frye, R. E.; Rossignol, D.; Scahill, L.; McDougle, C. J.; Huberman, H.; Quadros, E. V. Treatment of Folate Metabolism Abnormalities in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Seminars in Pediatric Neurology 2020, 100835. DOI: 10.1016/j.spen.2020.100835.

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