Báo cáo khoa học: Cysteine residues exposed on protein surfaces are the dominant intramitochondrial thiol and may protect against oxidative damage

Cysteine plays a number of important roles in protecting the cell from oxidative damage through its thiol functional group. These defensive func-tions are generally considered to be carried out by the low molecular weight thiol glutathione and by cysteine residues in the active sites of pro-teins such as thioredoxin and peroxiredoxin.