Studies, undertaken in this laboratory to evaluate the effect, of riboflavin antagonists on mammalian flavoenzymes, have necessitated the investigation of the xanthine oxidase activity of mouse tissue. In general, little difficulty has been encountered in the manometric determination of xanthine oxidase (1) in tissues of high enzymatic activity, e.g. liver and small intestine, although irregula...

BACKGROUND Increased inactivation of nitric oxide by superoxide (O2*-) contributes to endothelial dysfunction in patients with coronary disease (CAD). We therefore characterized the vascular activities of xanthine oxidase and NAD(P)H oxidase, 2 major O2*--producing enzyme systems, and their relationship with flow-dependent, endothelium-mediated vasodilation (FDD) in patients with CAD. METHODS...

5-Ethynyluracil is a time-dependent and tight binding inhibitor of xanthine oxidase. The maximal value of the first-order rate constant for onset of inhibition is 0.01 s-1, and the concentration of 5-ethynyluracil which gives one-half of this value is 190 microM. Because the t1/2 for formation of active enzyme from inhibited enzyme is greater than 30 h in the absence of NADH, inhibition of xant...

During the acute phase of myocardial ischemia, adenine nucleotides are degraded to nucleosides and bases, especially inosine and hypoxanthine. Simultaneously, xanthine dehydrogenase is converted to xanthine oxidase, an enzyme that converts hypoxanthine to xanthine, and xanthine to uric acid, producing a superoxide anion for each molecule of hypoxanthine or xanthine oxidized. To determine if fre...

The xanthine oxiclase activity of mouse regenerating liver has been shown to be elevated during the period of rapid liver growth and proliferation. This increase is evident when the enzyme activity is expressed per unit wet tissue weight, per unit nitrogen, or per cell. The adrenal cortex probably plays only a minor role in implementing this phenomenon. Further augmentation of the xanthine oxid...

This study was directed to the ability of oxygen free radicals to cause reversible vascular endothelial cell dysfunction. A well-characterized system for the production of the superoxide anion radical (O2(-).) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), employing xanthine and xanthine oxidase, was used to sublethally injure human umbilical vein endothelial (HUVE) cells in vitro. We examined the effects of a ...

The kinetic behaviour of chicken-liver xanthine dehydrogenase (xanthine/NAD+ oxidoreductase; EC 1.2.1.37) has been studied. Steady-state results, obtained from a wide range of concentrations of substrates and products, were fitted by rational functions of degree 1:1, 1:2, 2:2 and 3:3 with respect to substrates, and 0:1, 1:1, 0:2 and 1:2 with regard to products, using a non-linear regression pro...