On the substrate specificity of nitric oxide synthase.

Abstract:

:Nitric oxide (.NO) synthase (NOS) activity in subcellular fractions from cultured endothelial cells (EC) and lipopolysaccharide-activated J774.2 monocyte/macrophages was investigated by monitoring the .NO-mediated increase in intracellular cyclic GMP in LLC-PK1 pig kidney epithelial cells. The constitutive NOS in EC (NOSc) was largely membrane-bound, whereas the inducible NOS in J774.2 cells (NOSi) was equally distributed among cytosol and membrane(s). Both the cytosolic NOSc in EC and the membrane-bound NOSi in J774.2 cells were strictly Ca(2+)-dependent, whereas the membrane-bound NOSc in EC and the cytosolic NOSi in J774.2 cells were not. L-Homoarginine and L-arginine-containing small peptides, such as L-arginyl-L-phenylalanine, replaced L-arginine as a substrate for the NOSc in EC and the Ca(2+)-independent NOSi in J774.2 cells, but not the Ca(2+)-dependent NOSi. Thus, irrespective of their intracellular localisation, at least three isoforms of NOS exist, which can be differentiated by their substrate specificity and Ca(2+)-dependency.

journal_name

FEBS Lett

journal_title

FEBS letters

authors

Hecker M,Walsh DT,Vane JR

doi

10.1016/0014-5793(91)81434-a

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1991-12-09 00:00:00

pages

221-4

issue

3

eissn

0014-5793

issn

1873-3468

pii

0014-5793(91)81434-A

journal_volume

294

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