3-nitrotyrosine and phloretic-acid

3-nitrotyrosine has been researched along with phloretic-acid* in 1 studies

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Eosinophils are a major source of nitric oxide-derived oxidants in severe asthma: characterization of pathways available to eosinophils for generating reactive nitrogen species.
    Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950), 2001, May-01, Volume: 166, Issue:9

    Eosinophil recruitment and enhanced production of NO are characteristic features of asthma. However, neither the ability of eosinophils to generate NO-derived oxidants nor their role in nitration of targets during asthma is established. Using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry we demonstrate a 10-fold increase in 3-nitrotyrosine (NO(2)Y) content, a global marker of protein modification by reactive nitrogen species, in proteins recovered from bronchoalveolar lavage of severe asthmatic patients (480 +/- 198 micromol/mol tyrosine; n = 11) compared with nonasthmatic subjects (52.5 +/- 40.7 micromol/mol tyrosine; n = 12). Parallel gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analyses of bronchoalveolar lavage proteins for 3-bromotyrosine (BrY) and 3-chlorotyrosine (ClY), selective markers of eosinophil peroxidase (EPO)- and myeloperoxidase-catalyzed oxidation, respectively, demonstrated a dramatic preferential formation of BrY in asthmatic (1093 +/- 457 micromol BrY/mol tyrosine; 161 +/- 88 micromol ClY/mol tyrosine; n = 11 each) compared with nonasthmatic subjects (13 +/- 14.5 micromol BrY/mol tyrosine; 65 +/- 69 micromol ClY/mol tyrosine; n = 12 each). Bronchial tissue from individuals who died of asthma demonstrated the most intense anti-NO(2)Y immunostaining in epitopes that colocalized with eosinophils. Although eosinophils from normal subjects failed to generate detectable levels of NO, NO(2-), NO(3-), or NO(2)Y, tyrosine nitration was promoted by eosinophils activated either in the presence of physiological levels of NO(2-) or an exogenous NO source. At low, but not high (e.g., >2 microM/min), rates of NO flux, EPO inhibitors and catalase markedly attenuated aromatic nitration. These results identify eosinophils as a major source of oxidants during asthma. They also demonstrate that eosinophils use distinct mechanisms for generating NO-derived oxidants and identify EPO as an enzymatic source of nitrating intermediates in eosinophils.

    Topics: Eosinophil Peroxidase; Eosinophils; Free Radicals; Humans; Immunohistochemistry; Nitrates; Nitric Oxide; Nitric Oxide Donors; Nitrites; Oxidants; Oxidation-Reduction; Peroxidases; Phenylpropionates; Proteins; Reactive Oxygen Species; Status Asthmaticus; Tyrosine

2001