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  • Title: Decomposition of S-nitrosoglutathione in the presence of copper ions and glutathione.
    Author: Gorren AC, Schrammel Astrid, Schmidt K, Mayer B.
    Journal: Arch Biochem Biophys; 1996 Jun 15; 330(2):219-28. PubMed ID: 8660650.
    Abstract:
    The decomposition of S-nitrosoglutathione (GSNO) in the presence of Cu2+ and glutathione (GSH) was studied by stopped-flow/rapid-scan spectroscopy. Reduction of Cu2+ by GSH and subsequent formation of a GS-*Cu+ complex occurred within 200 ms, with the amount of complex formed depending on the GSH-to-Cu2+ ratio. The rate of GSNO decomposition at a fixed concentration of Cu2+ increased linearly with the concentration of GSH at low GSH-to-Cu2+ ratios (< or = 0.2), but sharply declined at higher ratios. The same pattern was observed for the rate of NO. release, measured with an NO.-sensitive electrode. GSNO decomposition and NO. release in the presence of GSH and/or Cu2+ were completely inhibited by the Cu+ chelator neocuproine, but unaffected by the Cu2+ chelator cuprizone. Ascorbate and cysteine, which will reduce Cu2+ but have little or no affinity for Cu+, also stimulated GSNO decomposition in the presence of Cu2+, but did not inhibit it at higher concentrations. It is concluded that the homolytic cleavage of GSNO is efficiently catalyzed by Cu+ and that the GS-*Cu+ complex is catalytically inactive. By determining the anaerobic GSNO decomposition rates in the presence of varying concentrations of Cu+ a value of 4 x 10(3)M(-1) x s(-1) was derived for the apparent Cu+-GSNO association rate constant.
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