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Superoxide anion formation from lucigenin: an electron spin resonance spin-trapping study.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Vásquez-Vivar, Jeannette Hogg, N. Pritchard, Kirkwood A. Martasek, P. Kalyanaraman, Balaraman |
| Copyright Year | 1997 |
| Abstract | Lucigenin (LC2+) is frequently used as a superoxide probe. To detect superoxide, lucigenin must be reduced to the lucigenin cation radical (LC.+). We show, using the phosphorylated spin trap 5-diethoxyphosphoryl-5-methyl-1-pyrroline N-oxide (DEPMPO), that lucigenin stimulates NADPH-dependent superoxide production by endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS). The formation of the DEPMPO-superoxide adduct is calcium/calmodulin independent. DEPMPO-superoxide adduct formation is inhibited by diphenyleneiodonium and is abolished by superoxide dismutase. It is likely that eNOS/NADPH can reduce lucigenin to LC.+ which reduces oxygen to superoxide. Consequently, lucigenin cannot be used to measure superoxide formation. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1016/S0014-5793(97)00036-7 |
| PubMed reference number | 9042951 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 403 |
| Issue Number | 2 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/82189762.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1016/S0014-5793%2897%2900036-7 |
| Journal | FEBS letters |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |