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Nitrite reductase activity of myoglobin regulates respiration and cellular viability in myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury.


ABSTRACT: The nitrite anion is reduced to nitric oxide (NO*) as oxygen tension decreases. Whereas this pathway modulates hypoxic NO* signaling and mitochondrial respiration and limits myocardial infarction in mammalian species, the pathways to nitrite bioactivation remain uncertain. Studies suggest that hemoglobin and myoglobin may subserve a fundamental physiological function as hypoxia dependent nitrite reductases. Using myoglobin wild-type ((+/+)) and knockout ((-/-)) mice, we here test the central role of myoglobin as a functional nitrite reductase that regulates hypoxic NO* generation, controls cellular respiration, and therefore confirms a cytoprotective response to cardiac ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury. We find that myoglobin is responsible for nitrite-dependent NO* generation and cardiomyocyte protein iron-nitrosylation. Nitrite reduction to NO* by myoglobin dynamically inhibits cellular respiration and limits reactive oxygen species generation and mitochondrial enzyme oxidative inactivation after I/R injury. In isolated myoglobin(+/+) but not in myoglobin(-/-) hearts, nitrite treatment resulted in an improved recovery of postischemic left ventricular developed pressure of 29%. In vivo administration of nitrite reduced myocardial infarction by 61% in myoglobin(+/+) mice, whereas in myoglobin(-/-) mice nitrite had no protective effects. These data support an emerging paradigm that myoglobin and the heme globin family subserve a critical function as an intrinsic nitrite reductase that regulates responses to cellular hypoxia and reoxygenation [corrected]

SUBMITTER: Hendgen-Cotta UB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2481313 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Nitrite reductase activity of myoglobin regulates respiration and cellular viability in myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury.

Hendgen-Cotta Ulrike B UB   Merx Marc W MW   Shiva Sruti S   Schmitz Joel J   Becher Stefanie S   Klare Johann P JP   Steinhoff Heinz-Jürgen HJ   Goedecke Axel A   Schrader Jürgen J   Gladwin Mark T MT   Kelm Malte M   Rassaf Tienush T  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20080716 29


The nitrite anion is reduced to nitric oxide (NO*) as oxygen tension decreases. Whereas this pathway modulates hypoxic NO* signaling and mitochondrial respiration and limits myocardial infarction in mammalian species, the pathways to nitrite bioactivation remain uncertain. Studies suggest that hemoglobin and myoglobin may subserve a fundamental physiological function as hypoxia dependent nitrite reductases. Using myoglobin wild-type ((+/+)) and knockout ((-/-)) mice, we here test the central rol  ...[more]

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