Abstract:
:Small particles of crystalline silicon dioxide (crystallites) are exceptionally toxic. Inhalation of quartz crystallites causes silicosis, a devastating lung disease afflicting miners, particularly coal and stone workers. Poly(vinylpyridine-N-oxide)s (PVPNOs) have been applied in the prevention and treatment of silicosis, but their mode of action has been obscure. Recently, the sites of inducible *NO synthase activation and of nitrotyrosine formation were associated anatomically with the pathological quartz particle-caused lesions in the lungs. It has been suggested that the *NO formed combines rapidly with O2*- to yield ONOO-, a potential mediator of lung injury following silica exposure. Here, we show that PVPNOs do not react with peroxynitrite but scavenge exceptionally rapidly CO3*- radicals, which are produced in the decomposition of ONOO- in bicarbonate solutions. The rate constant for the reaction of CO3*- with PVPNO was found to be independent of the type and size of PVPNO, i.e., k = (1.9 +/- 0.2) x 10(5) M(-1) s(-1) per monomer. In contrast, the rate constant for the reaction of CO3*- with the small molecule 4-methylpyridine N-oxide did not exceed 1 x 10(4) M(-1) s(-1). The underlying reason for the difference is that, in the dissolved polymeric PVPNOs, the electrostatic repulsion between the N-oxide zwitterions destabilizes them, increasing dramatically their pKa. The protonated N-oxides at physiological pH have abstractable hydrogen atoms and are expected to react rapidly with CO3*-, just as cyclic hydroxylamines do. It is also shown that PVPNO inhibits tyrosine nitration by peroxynitrite at pH 7.6 in the presence of excess of CO2 in a concentration-dependent manner. Hence, binding of PVPNO to the quartz particles and eliminating CO3*- could prevent the killing of macrophages, the associated release of macrophage-recruiting cytokines, and the amplification of the local concentration of *NO by the recruited macrophages. The latter causes necrosis of the macrophage-infiltrated lung tissue and, upon repair of the necrotic lesion, results in the growth of the dysfunctional fibrotic tissue, which is the hallmark of silicosis.
journal_name
Chem Res Toxicoljournal_title
Chemical research in toxicologyauthors
Goldstein S,Czapski G,Heller Adoi
10.1021/tx050271tsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2006-01-01 00:00:00pages
86-91issue
1eissn
0893-228Xissn
1520-5010journal_volume
19pub_type
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