Myoglobin (Mb) serves in the facilitated diffusion and storage of O₂ in heart and skeletal muscle, where it also regulates O₂ consumption via nitric oxide (NO) scavenging or generation. S-nitrosation at reactive cysteines may generate S-nitroso Mb (Mb-SNO) and contribute further to NO homeostasis. In being a monomer, Mb is commonly believed to lack allosteric control of heme reactivity. Here, w...

Nitrosation of dietary components has been combined with the 4-(para-nitrobenzyl)pyridine (NBP) colorimetric test for screening alkylating agents and with the Ames test for the detection of mutagenic activity. This allowed the investigation of short-lived nitrosation products of dietary components which generate electrophilic degradation products requiring no metabolic activation (natural amino...

Oximes of glucose, xylose, lactose, fructose, and mannose have been prepared. Nitrosation of the oximes of glucose, xylose, and lactose with NaNO2/HCl afforded 2-(beta-glycopyranosyl)-1-hydroxydiazene-2-oxides, which were isolated as salts 13, 22, and 28. Nitrosation of fructose oxime 29 furnished fructose, whereas nitrosation of mannose oxime 30 with NaNO2/HCl afforded the 1-hydroxy-2-(beta-D-...

Peroxynitrite (ONOO-), a potent oxidant formed by reaction of nitric oxide (NO.) with superoxide anion, can activate guanylyl cyclase and is able to induce vasodilation or inhibit platelet aggregation and leukocyte adhesion, via thiol-dependent formation of NO. Reaction of ONOO- with thiols is thought to proceed through formation of a S-nitrothiol (thionitrate; RSNO2) intermediate and yields lo...

Nitric oxide (NO) is a small molecule with distinct roles in diverse physiological functions in biological systems, among them the control of the apoptotic signalling cascade. By combining proteomic, genetic and biochemical approaches we demonstrate that NO and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) are crucial mediators of yeast apoptosis. Using indirect methodologies and a NO-select...

authors identified a tyrosinase-like enzyme, NspF, that was homologous to tyrosinaselike GriF in grixazone biosynthesis. Tyrosinases contain a binuclear copper cluster and have known functions as monoand diphenol oxidases (for example, in melanin production), in keeping with the elucidated role of GriF. However, because a traditional N-oxidase was absent from the 4,3-HNBAm gene cluster, the aut...

Melanoma patients experience inferior survival after biochemotherapy when their tumors contain numerous cells expressing the inducible isoform of NO synthase (iNOS) and elevated levels of nitrotyrosine, a product derived from NO. Although several lines of evidence suggest that NO promotes tumor growth and increases resistance to chemotherapy, it is unclear how it shapes these outcomes. Here we ...

The mutagenic potential of aqueous extracts of masheri (ME), chewing tobacco alone (CTE) and a mixture of chewing tobacco plus lime (CTLE) was tested using the Ames assay. ME exhibited mutagenicity in Salmonella typhimurium TA98 upon metabolic activation with aroclor-1254-induced rat liver S9, while nitrosation rendered it mutagenic in TA100 and TA102. CTE exhibited borderline mutagenicity in t...