title: Selective inhibition of constitutive nitric oxide synthase by L-NG-nitroarginine.
abstract: L-NG-Nitroarginine (NA) inhibited both the L-arginine oxidation and the L-arginine-independent NADPH oxidation reactions catalyzed by the calcium/calmodulin-dependent constitutive nitric oxide synthase (cNOS) from bovine brain. NA binding did not require calmodulin, calcium, or NADPH. The onset of inhibition was slow with a second-order association rate constant (k(on) of 4.4 x 10(4) M-1 s-1. The dissociation rate constant (k(off) was 6.5 x 10(-4) s-1. The Kd value (k(off)/k(on)) of bovine brain cNOS for NA was 15 nM. L-Arginine was a competitive inhibitor of NA binding with a Ks value of 0.8 microM. The Km for L-arginine in the cNOS reaction was 1.2 microM. The NA binding sites of cNOS were titrated with NA, which enabled a kcat of 0.7 s-1, for the oxidation of L-arginine, to be calculated. Finally, a brain cNOS-(3H)NA complex was isolated. In contrast to the potent and slow onset of NA inhibition of brain cNOS, NA inhibition of inducible mouse macrophage NOS (iNOS) was weaker (Ki = 4.4 microM) and rapidly reversible. Thus, NA was a 300-fold more potent inhibitor of bovine brain cNOS than mouse macrophage iNOS.
authors.affiliation: Division of Experimental Therapy, Wellcome Research Laboratories, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709.
authors.forename: E S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Furfine
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Harmon
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Paith
authors.forename: E P
authors.initials: EP
authors.lastname: Garvey
mesh_terms: D000594:Amino Acid Oxidoreductases / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D000818:Animals; D001120:Arginine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000494:pharmacology; D001921:Brain / Q000201:enzymology*; D002118:Calcium / Q000494:pharmacology; D002147:Calmodulin / Q000494:pharmacology; D002417:Cattle; D007700:Kinetics; D008433:Mathematics; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009249:NADP / Q000494:pharmacology; D019001:Nitric Oxide Synthase; D019335:Nitroarginine; D011485:Protein Binding
chemical_list: D002147:Calmodulin; D019335:Nitroarginine; D009249:NADP; D001120:Arginine; D019001:Nitric Oxide Synthase; D000594:Amino Acid Oxidoreductases; D002118:Calcium