Abstract:
:Nitric oxide (NO) is a well-documented effector molecule in rodent phagocytes but its synthesis in human neutrophils has been controversial. In this study, NO production in human neutrophils activated by chemotactic peptide N-formyl-methionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine (fMLP) was measured in the presence of L-arginine (L-Arg) and N(G)-hydroxy-L-arginine (OH-L-Arg), the precursor and intermediate amino acids in NO synthesis, respectively. Incubation of fMLP-activated neutrophils with OH-L-Arg resulted in a production of nitrite, nitrate, and citrulline that was greater than with unstimulated neutrophils but was not inhibited by the NOS inhibitors L-NMMA and L-NIO or the cytochrome P450 inhibitor troleandomycin and was not seen when OH-L-Arg was replaced with L-Arg. This nitrite, nitrate, and citrulline production was not associated with any detectable NO synthesis because no increases in cyclic GMP were observed in the presence of phosphodiesterase inhibitors and in the presence or absence of superoxide dismutase. Moreover, no increases in the formation of the reaction product of NO with superoxide, peroxynitrite, were observed on addition of either OH-L-Arg or L-Arg to activated neutrophils, as assessed either by dihydrorhodamine oxidation or protein nitration. This suggests that, in spite of the production of nitrite, nitrate, and citrulline, commonly used indicators of NO formation, normal human blood neutrophils, are not producing detectable amounts of either NO or peroxynitrite when stimulated with fMLP in the presence of OH-L-Arg.
journal_name
J Leukoc Bioljournal_title
Journal of leukocyte biologyauthors
Holm P,Kankaanranta H,Oja SS,Knowles RG,Moilanen Edoi
10.1002/jlb.66.1.127subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1999-07-01 00:00:00pages
127-34issue
1eissn
0741-5400issn
1938-3673journal_volume
66pub_type
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