title: Abacavir and warfarin modulate allosterically kinetics of NO dissociation from ferrous nitrosylated human serum heme-albumin.
abstract: Human serum albumin (HSA) participates to heme scavenging, in turn HSA-heme binds gaseous diatomic ligands at the heme-Fe-atom. Here, the effect of abacavir and warfarin on denitrosylation kinetics of HSA-heme-Fe(II)-NO (i.e., k(off)) is reported. In the absence of drugs, the value of k(off) is (1.3+/-0.2) x 10(-4)s(-1). Abacavir and warfarin facilitate NO dissociation from HSA-heme-Fe(II)-NO, the k(off) value increases to (8.6+/-0.9) x 10(-4)s(-1). From the dependence of k(off) on the drug concentration, values of the dissociation equilibrium constant for the abacavir and warfarin binding to HSA-heme-Fe(II)-NO (i.e., K=(1.2+/-0.2) x 10(-3)M and (6.2+/-0.7) x 10(-5)M, respectively) were determined. The increase of k(off) values reflects the stabilization of the basic form of HSA-heme-Fe by ligands (e.g., abacavir and warfarin) that bind to Sudlow's site I. This event parallels the stabilization of the six-coordinate derivative of the HSA-heme-Fe(II)-NO atom. Present data highlight the allosteric modulation of HSA-heme-Fe(II) reactivity by heterotropic effectors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology and Interdepartmental Laboratory for Electron Microscopy, University Roma Tre, Viale Guglielmo Marconi 446, I-00146 Roma, Italy.
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ascenzi
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Imperi
authors.forename: Massimo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Coletta
authors.forename: Mauro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fasano
mesh_terms: D000925:Anticoagulants / Q000737:chemistry; D015224:Dideoxynucleosides / Q000737:chemistry*; D006801:Humans; D007501:Iron / Q000737:chemistry*; D007700:Kinetics; D009569:Nitric Oxide / Q000737:chemistry*; D012709:Serum Albumin / Q000737:chemistry*; D014859:Warfarin / Q000737:chemistry*; D000099227:Abacavir
chemical_list: D000925:Anticoagulants; D015224:Dideoxynucleosides; D007501:Iron; D009569:Nitric Oxide; D012709:Serum Albumin; D014859:Warfarin; D000099227:Abacavir