Key result
Superoxide reacts rapidly with nitric oxide to reduce N-nitrosation of aromatic amino compounds by up to 90%, limiting its ability to promote mutagenesis.
Equimolar fluxes of superoxide react rapidly with NO to generate products with limited ability to N-nitrosate aromatic amino compounds, potentially limiting mutagenesis.
Superoxide may limit nitrosative mutagenesis during inflammation; this Level 5 finding leaves open relevance to human cardiovascular disease.
Recent studies have demonstrated that nitric oxide (NO) in the presence of superoxide (O2-) may mediate mutagenesis via the N-nitrosation of DNA bases followed by nitrosative deamination to yield their hydroxylated derivatives. We have found that phorbol myristate acetate (PMA)-activated extravasated rat neutrophils (PMNs) will N-nitrosate 2,3-diaminonaphthalene (DAN) to yield its highly fluorescent nitrosation product 2,3-naphthotriazole (triazole) via the L-arginine dependent formation of NO. Addition of SOD enhanced triazole formation suggesting that O2- production may inhibit the N-nitrosating activity and thus the mutagenic activity of inflammatory PMNs. The objective of this study was to assess the role of superoxide as a modulator of NO-dependent N-nitrosation reactions using PMA-activated PMNs as well as a chemically defined-system that generates both NO and superoxide. We found that PMA-activation of PMNs reduced found that PMA-activation of PMNs reduced the amount of N-nitrosation of DAN by approximately 64% when compared to non-stimulated cells (450 vs. 1250 nM). Addition of SOD but not inactivated SOD or catalase to PMA-activated PMNs enhanced the formation of triazole by approximately 4-fold (1950 nM). In addition, we found that the NO-releasing spermine/NO adduct (Sp/NO; 50 microM) which produces approximately 1.0 nmol NO/min generated approximately 8000 nM of triazole whereas the combination of Sp/NO and a superoxide generator (hypoxanthine/xanthine oxidase) that produces approximately 1.0 nmol O2-/min reduced triazole formation by 90% (790 nM). Addition of SOD but not catalase restored the N-nitrosating activity. We conclude that equimolar fluxes of superoxide react rapidly with NO to generate products that have only limited ability to N-nitrosate aromatic amino compounds and thus may have limited ability to promote mutagenesis via the nitrosative deamination of DNA bases.
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Miles et al. (1995) studied this question. Superoxide vs. Nitric oxide alone or non-stimulated cells was evaluated on N-nitrosation of 2,3-diaminonaphthalene (DAN) to yield 2,3-naphthotriazole (triazole). Superoxide reacts rapidly with nitric oxide to reduce N-nitrosation of aromatic amino compounds by up to 90%, limiting its ability to promote mutagenesis.
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