title: Nitrated lipids decompose to nitric oxide and lipid radicals and cause vasorelaxation.
abstract: Nitric oxide-derived oxidants such as nitrogen dioxide and peroxynitrite have been receiving increasing attention as mediators of nitric oxide toxicity. Indeed, nitrated and nitrosated compounds have been detected in biological fluids and tissues of healthy subjects and in higher yields in patients under inflammatory or infectious conditions as a consequence of nitric oxide overproduction. Among them, nitrated lipids have been detected in vivo. Here, we confirmed and extended previous studies by demonstrating that nitrolinoleate, chlolesteryl nitrolinoleate, and nitrohydroxylinoleate induce vasorelaxation in a concentration-dependent manner while releasing nitric oxide that was characterized by chemiluminescence-and EPR-based methodologies. As we first show here, diffusible nitric oxide production is likely to occur by isomerization of the nitrated lipids to the corresponding nitrite derivatives that decay through homolysis and/or metal ion/ascorbate-assisted reduction. The homolytic mechanism was supported by EPR spin-trapping studies with 3,5-dibromo-4-nitrosobenzenesulfonic acid that trapped a lipid-derived radical during nitrolinoleate decomposition. In addition to provide a mechanism to explain nitric oxide production from nitrated lipids, the results support their role as endogenous sources of nitric oxide that may play a role in endothelium-independent vasorelaxation.
authors.affiliation: Clinical and Toxicological Analysis Department, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: Emersom S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Lima
authors.forename: Marcelo G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Bonini
authors.forename: Ohara
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Augusto
authors.forename: Hermes V
authors.initials: HV
authors.lastname: Barbeiro
authors.forename: Heraldo P
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Souza
authors.forename: Dulcineia S P
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Abdalla
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001013:Aorta, Thoracic / Q000187:drug effects*; D001205:Ascorbic Acid / Q000494:pharmacology; D002788:Cholesterol Esters / Q000494:pharmacology*; D004578:Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy; D005609:Free Radicals / Q000737:chemistry*; D008041:Linoleic Acids / Q000494:pharmacology*; D015227:Lipid Peroxidation; D008163:Luminescent Measurements; D008297:Male; D009569:Nitric Oxide / Q000737:chemistry*; D009574:Nitro Compounds / Q000494:pharmacology*; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D014664:Vasodilation / Q000187:drug effects*
chemical_list: C501855:10-nitro-9,12-octadecadienoic acid; D002788:Cholesterol Esters; D005609:Free Radicals; D008041:Linoleic Acids; D009574:Nitro Compounds; C487539:cholesteryl nitrolinoleate; D009569:Nitric Oxide; D001205:Ascorbic Acid