title: Nitric oxide formation during microsomal hepatic denitration of glyceryl trinitrate: involvement of cytochrome P-450.
abstract: Glyceryl trinitrate was denitrated by rat liver microsomes in the presence of NADPH with formation of a mixture of glyceryl dinitrates and glyceryl mononitrates. The highest activity was obtained under anaerobic conditions and the reaction was inhibited by O2 indicating that it is a reductive denitration. It was also inhibited by CO, metyrapone and miconazole showing that it was catalyzed by cytochrome P-450. Finally the formation of the cytochrome P-450-Fe(II)-NO complex during this reaction was shown by visible spectroscopy. These data demonstrate that microsomal reductive denitration of glyceryl trinitrate is catalyzed by cytochrome P-450 and can be involved in the formation of the endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF = nitric oxide).
authors.affiliation: Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles CNRS, France.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Servent
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Delaforge
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ducrocq
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mansuy
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lenfant
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001711:Biotransformation; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System / Q000378:metabolism*; D007700:Kinetics; D008297:Male; D008862:Microsomes, Liver / Q000378:metabolism*; D009243:NAD / Q000378:metabolism; D009249:NADP / Q000378:metabolism; D009569:Nitric Oxide / Q000378:metabolism*; D005996:Nitroglycerin / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013053:Spectrophotometry
chemical_list: D009243:NAD; D009569:Nitric Oxide; D009249:NADP; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System; D005996:Nitroglycerin