The peptide's biological activity in research models depends on its 1:1 chelation of a copper(II) ion
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A high dose of vitamin C, for example, can increase your risk of developing kidney stones, according to Chen
However, genetic complementation of gr2 mutants with organelle-specific GR2 constructs demonstrates that it is the lack of GR activity in plastids, and not in mitochondria that is responsible for embryo-lethality [125]