Triosephosphate isomerase tyrosine nitration induced by heme-NaNO2-H2O2 or peroxynitrite: Effects of different natural phenolic compounds: GAO ET AL.

: Peroxynitrite and heme peroxidases (or heme)-H2 O2 -NaNO2 system are the two common ways to cause protein tyrosine nitration in vitro, but the effects of antioxidants on reducing these two pathways-induced protein nitration and oxidation are controversial. Both nitrating systems can dose-dependently induce triosephosphate isomerase (TIM) nitration, however, heme-H2 O2 -NaNO2 was less destructive to protein secondary structures and led to more nitrated tyrosine residue than 3-morpholinosydnonimine hydrochloride (SIN-1, a peroxynitrite donor). Both of desferrioxamine and catechin could inhibit TIM nitration induced by heme-H2 O2 -NaNO2 and SIN-1 and protein oxidation induced by SIN-1, but promoted heme-H2 O2 -NaNO2 -induced protein oxidation. Moreover, the antagonism of natural phenolic compounds on SIN-1-induced tyrosine nitration was consistent with their radical scavenging ability, but no similar consensus was found in heme-H2 O2 -NaNO2 -induced nitration. Our results indicated that peroxynitrite and heme-H2 O2 -NaNO2 -induced protein nitration was different, and the later one could be a better model for anti-nitration compounds screening.