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  • Title: Skeletal muscle as a reservoir for nitrate and nitrite: The role of xanthine oxidase reductase (XOR).
    Author: Ortiz de Zevallos J, Woessner MN, Kelley EE.
    Journal: Nitric Oxide; 2022 Dec 01; 129():102-109. PubMed ID: 36367524.
    Abstract:
    Recent studies have identified skeletal muscle as a tissue compartment where nitrate and nitrite can be stored and utilized to potentially maintain nitric oxide (NO) homeostasis. Given its capacity to reduce nitrate and nitrite, the molybdopterin-containing enzyme, xanthine oxidoreductase (XOR) has been suggested as a key enzyme within skeletal muscle which catalytically reduces these N-oxides; however, there remains limited insight into the role of XOR in this process as well as how different conditions (e.g. health vs disease and rest vs exercise) may determine when and where, within skeletal muscle, XOR could serve as a significant source of NO. A key factor that determines the extent by which XOR may or may not contribute to NO generation in a biologically relevant manner is the biochemical landscape (e.g. oxygen tension, pH, isoform of XOR (XDH vs. XO) and substrate levels of the microenvironment in normal versus stressed skeletal muscle. As such, a critical focus of this review is the evaluation of the biochemical and physiologic data supporting the role of XOR within skeletal muscle for supplying nitrite and/or NO from endogenous and exogenous sources during pathophysiologic conditions and/or exercise stress.
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