PEROXYNITRITE, A CLOAKED OXIDANT FORMED BY NITRIC-OXIDE AND SUPEROXIDE
PEROXYNITRITE, A CLOAKED OXIDANT FORMED BY NITRIC-OXIDE AND SUPEROXIDE
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DOI:
10.1021/tx00030a017
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发表时间:
1992-11-01
影响因子:
4.1
通讯作者:
BECKMAN, JS
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作者:
KOPPENOL, WH;MORENO, JJ;BECKMAN, JS
Peroxynitrite [oxoperoxonitrate(1-), ONOO-] may be formed in vivo from superoxide and nitric oxide. The anion is stable, but the acid (pK(a) = 6.8) decays to nitrate with a rate of 1.3 s-1 at 25-degrees-C. The experimental activation parameters of this process are DELTAH(double dagger) = +18 +/-1 kcal/mol, DELTAS(double dagger) = +3 +/- 2 cal/(mol.K), and DELTAG(double dagger) = +17 +/- 1 kcal/mol. Peroxynitrite (or its protonated form) oxidizes some compounds such as thiols and thioethers in a bimolecular reaction. The reactions with glutathione and cysteine have activation enthalpies of 10.9 and 9.7 kcal/mol, respectively, which are lower than that of the isomerization reaction. Peroxynitrite reacts with other compounds such as dimethyl sulfoxide and deoxyribose in a unimolecular reaction for which the activation of peroxynitrite is rate-limiting. In theory, activation could involve (1) heterolysis to OH- and NO2+ (DELTA(rnx)G-degrees' = 13 kcal/mol at pH 7) or (2) homolysis to .OH and .NO2 (DELTA(rxn)G-degrees = 21 kcal/mol), and these processes also could be involved in the isomerization to nitrate. However, thermodynamic and kinetic considerations indicate that neither process is feasible, although binding to metal ions may reduce the large activation energy associated with heterolysis. An intermediate closely related to the transition state for isomerization of ONOOH to HONO2 may be the strongly oxidizing intermediate responsible for hydroxyl radical-like oxidations mediated by ONOOH. Thus, peroxynitrite reacts with different compounds by at least two distinct mechanisms, and the hydroxyl radical is not involved in either.