Intramitochondrial

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.

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