bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.28.458008; this version posted August 29, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. 1 Title: Dual avatars of E. coli grxB encoded Glutaredoxin 2 perform ascorbate recycling and ion 2 channel activities 3 4 Authors 5 Sreeshma Nellootil Sreekumar1,2†, Bhaba Krishna Das1†, Rahul Raina1†, Neethu 6 Puthumadathil3, Sonakshi Udinia4, Amit Kumar1, Sibasis Sahoo1, Pooja Ravichandran1, 7 Suman Kumar5, Pratima Ray2, Dhiraj Kumar4, Anmol Chandele5, Kozhinjampara R. 8 Mahendran3, Arulandu Arockiasamy1* 9 10 11 Affiliations 12 1 Membrane Protein Biology Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and 13 Biotechnology, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi 110067. India. 14 15 2 Department of Biotechnology, Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi 110062. India. 16 17 3Membrane Biology Laboratory, Interdisciplinary Research Program, Rajiv Gandhi Centre 18 for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram 695014, India. 19 20 4 Cellular Immunology Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and 21 Biotechnology, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi 110067. India. 22 5 23 ICGEB-Emory Vaccine Centre, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and 24 Biotechnology, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi 110067. India. 25 26 †these authors contributed equally to this work 27 *Correspondence should be addressed to
[email protected] 28 29 Correspondence: 30 Arockiasamy Arulandu 31 Membrane Protein Biology Group, 32 International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, 33 Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, 34 New Delhi-110067.