Pharmaceutical Sciences Faculty Publications
Deamidation of Peptides in Aerobic Nitric Oxide Solution by a Nitrosative Pathway
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-1-2006
Journal Title
Nitric Oxide
ISSN
1089-8603
Volume
14
Issue
2
First Page
144
Last Page
151
DOI
10.1016/j.niox.2005.09.003
PubMed ID
16249103
Abstract
Hydrolytic deamidation of asparagine (Asn) and glutamine (Gln) residues to aspartate (Asp) and glutamate (Glu), respectively, can have significant biological consequences. We hypothesize that a wholly different mechanism of deamidation might occur in the presence of aerobic nitric oxide (NO). Accordingly, we examined the deamidating ability of aerobic NO toward three model peptides, 2,4-dinitrophenyl (DNP)-Pro-Gln-Gly, Lys-Trp-Asp-Asn-Gln, and Ser-Glu-Asn-Tyr-Pro-Ile-Val, incubating them with the NO-generating compound, Et(2)N[N(O)NO]Na (DEA/NO, 30-48 mM), in aerobic, pH 7.4, buffer at 37 degrees C. DNP-Pro-Glu-Gly was detected after 2 h, while Lys-Trp-Asp-Asp-Gln, Lys-Trp-Asp-Asn-Glu, and Ser-Glu-Asp-Tyr-Pro-Ile-Val were detected within 10 min, accumulating in apparent yields of up to approximately 10%. In the latter case, tyrosine nitration was also observed, producing the expected nitrotyrosine residue. DEA/NO solutions preincubated to exhaust the NO before the peptides were added did not induce detectable deamidation. The data demonstrate that aerobic NO exposures can lead to nitrosative deamidation of peptides, a pathway that differs from the established hydrolytic deamidation mechanism in several key respects: the by-products of the former are molecular nitrogen and an acid (HONO) while that of the latter is a base (NH(3)); the nitrosative path can in principle proceed in the absence of water molecules; Asn is much more easily deamidated than Gln in the hydrolytic pathway, while the two amino acid residues were deamidated to a similar extent by exposure to NO in the presence of oxygen.
Keywords
Amino acids, hydrogen-ion concentration, macromolecular substances, chemical, nitric oxide, peptides, pharmaceutical preparations
Recommended Citation
Kong, Li; Saavedra, Joseph E.; Buzard, Gregory S.; Xu, Xia; Hood, Brian L.; Conrads, Thomas P.; Veenstra, Timothy D.; and Keefer, Larry K., "Deamidation of Peptides in Aerobic Nitric Oxide Solution by a Nitrosative Pathway" (2006). Pharmaceutical Sciences Faculty Publications. 408.
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