title: Reactive nitrogen species-dependent effects on soybean chloroplasts.
abstract: Nitric oxide (NO) generation by soybean (Glycine max, var ADM 4800) chloroplasts was studied by electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spin-trapping technique.1 Both nitrite and L-arginine (arg) are the required substrates for enzymatic activities considered as possible sources of NO in plants. Soybean chloroplasts showed a NO production of 3.2 +/- 0.2 nmol min(-1) mg(-1) protein in the presence of 1 mM NaNO(2). Chloroplasts incubated with 1 mM arg showed a NO production of 0.76 +/- 0.04 nmol min(-1) mg(-1) protein. This production was inhibited when chloroplasts were incubated in presence of NOS-inhibitors L-NAME and L-NNA. In vitro exposure of chloroplasts to a NO-donor (GSNO) decreased both ascorbyl radical content and the activity of ascorbate peroxidase, without modification of the total ascorbate content. Exposure of the isolated chloroplasts to a NO-donor decreased lipid radical content in membranes, however, incubation in the presence of 25 microM peroxynitrite (ONOO(-)) led to an increase in lipid-derived radicals (34%). The effect of ONOO(-) on protein oxidation was determined by western blotting, showing an increase in carbonyl content either in stroma or thylakoid proteins as compared to control. Taken as a whole, NO seems to be an endogenous metabolite in soybean chloroplasts and reactive nitrogen species could exert either antioxidant or prooxidant effects on chloroplasts, since both a decreased lipid radical content in membranes and a decrease in the activity of ascorbate peroxidase were observed after exposure to a NO donor.
authors.affiliation: Physical Chemistry-PRALIB; School of Pharmacy and Biochemistry; University of Buenos Aires; Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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