Conjugation of reduced glutathione to a wide number of exogenous and endogenous hydrophobic electrophiles. glutathione + RX = a halide anion + an S-substituted glutathione + H(+) Belongs to the GST superfamily. Alpha family. The gene for this protein is duplicated in strains AX3 and AX4. These strains contain a duplication of a segment of 750 kb of chromosome 2 compared to the corresponding sequence in strain AX2.