On p-Adic Description of Glutathione Synthesis

In this paper, we use a mathematical approach to glutathione synthesis. We establish a downward tree to describe the glutathione syntheses based on three amino acids. We assign C = 1, A = 2, U = T = 3, G = 4 for nucleotides of codons related to amino acids which form glutathiones as in [3]. Then we set up a sequence of digits of 1, 2, 3, 4 and corresponding 5-adic expansion for each synthesis. We employ 5-adic norm to measure the distance between any two syntheses. And we use this distance to identify the occurrence of successful syntheses.