Mechanism of extracellular thiol nitrosylation by N(2)O(3) produced by activated macrophages. |
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Authors: | A P Gobert P Vincendeau D Mossalayi B Veyret |
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Institution: | Laboratoire de Physique des Interactions Ondes-Matière (PIOM), UMR 5501, CNRS, ENSCPB, Talence, France. |
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Abstract: | Reactive nitrogen intermediates are synthesized by activated macrophages. These molecules, and nitrous anhydride (N(2)O(3)) in particular, are known to be potent nitrosylating species. We investigated the role of macrophage-derived N(2)O(3) in extracellular nitrosylation. We used dilution experiments to demonstrate the intracellular production of N(2)O(3) and its export into the extracellular medium, with a rate constant k(ex) = 6.8 x 10(6) M s(-1). The kinetics of the competition between extracellular hydrolysis of N(2)O(3) and its reaction with added glutathione were also studied. We obtained a value of the rate constant k(GSH) for the latter reaction of 4.4 x 10(7) M(-1) s(-1), consistent with earlier determinations in cell-free systems. The implications of these results in human albumin nitrosylation were investigated. Nitrosylated albumin was detected in activated macrophages supernatants using an anti-NO-acetylated cysteine antibody. It was estimated that 10% of N(2)O(3) produced by activated cells participate in extracellular nitrosylation. N(2)O(3) thus appears to be a new effector molecule of the immune system, as an agent for the nitrosylation of albumin, the main nitric oxide carrier in vivo. |
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