Maintenance of Redox Neutrality

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MIT 5.07SC Biological Chemistry, Fall 2013
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Instructor: John Essigmann

It is important to maintain redox neutrality in the cytoplasm of mammalian cells. Professor Essigmann explains how shuttles, such as the glycerol-3-phosphate shuttle and malate-aspartate shuttle, allow the cytoplasm to stay in redox balance.

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