N-nitro-L-arginine and N-monomethyl-L-arginine exhibit a different pattern of inactivation toward the three nitric oxide synthases

Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics
D W Reif, S A McCreedy

Abstract

The ability of NG-nitro-L-arginine (NNA) and NG-methyl-L-arginine (NMMA) to inactivate native neuronal, endothelial cell, and macrophage nitric oxide synthases (nNOS, eNOS, and iNOS, respectively) was investigated. Each NOS isozyme (plus cofactors) was preincubated with either NNA or NMMA and then assayed for remaining activity by measuring the conversion of labeled L-arginine to labeled L-citrulline. Consistent with previous reports (Olken, N. M., et al., Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 177, 828-833, 1991), NMMA was a mechanism-based irreversible inhibitor of iNOS, exhibiting time- and concentration-dependent inactivation of iNOS with a KI equal to 2.6 microM and a kinact equal to 0.042 min-1. When assayed without a preincubation period, NMMA exhibited typical reversible inhibition of iNOS (Ki = 3.9 microM). NMMA also reversibly inhibited nNOS and the eNOS with Ki equal to 0.65 and 0.7 microM, respectively. However, NMMA did not inactivate eNOS at concentrations up to 10 microM. In the presence, but not the absence, of 4 microM tetrahydrobiopterin, NMMA inactivated nNOS with a kinact equal to 0.022 min-1 and a KI equal to 2.0 microM. Since NNA did not inactivate iNOS at concentrations up to 25 microM, NNA is strictly a reversib...Continue Reading

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