title: Thiamine and vasculopathies.
abstract: After peroxynitrite addition to aqueous solutions of thiamine at neutral and alkaline pH formation of thiamine disulfide and fluorescent products was observed. The fluorescent compounds were identified as thiochrome (TChr) and oxodihydrothiochrome (ODTChr) using spectral and fluorescent methods as well as paper chromatography and mass spectrometry. TChr and ODTChr are not the end products of thiamine oxidation and in neutral medium are unstable to peroxynitrite action and degrade rapidly to form non-fluorescent products. Thiamine, TChr, and ODTChr protects tyrosine from its modification by peroxynitrite. In the presence of TChr and ODTChr modification of tyrosinyl residues in human serum albumin and cytocrome c decreased. The prolonged thiamine incubation with glucose, amino acids and nitrite was accompanied by oxidative transformation of thiamine and formation of fluorescent products. We have shown that thiamine is also oxidized into TChr and ODTChr, i.e., it forms the same products as after thiamine oxidation by peroxynitrite. Moreover, thiamine (or its derivatives) appears as peroxynitrite scavenger leading to toxic effects lowering at diabetes mellitus.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biochemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, BLK-50, 230009 Grodno, Belarus. stepuro@grsu.by
authors.forename: I I
authors.initials: II
authors.lastname: Stepuro
mesh_terms: D003925:Diabetic Angiopathies / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D008954:Models, Biological; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D030421:Peroxynitrous Acid / Q000737:chemistry; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D013831:Thiamine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000032:analysis / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins; D030421:Peroxynitrous Acid; C005793:thiochrome; C070584:oxodihydrothiochrome; C013293:thiamine disulfide; D013831:Thiamine