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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 283, Issue 17, Pages 11146-11154Publisher
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DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M708019200
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- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/E015883/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- BBSRC [BB/E015883/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/E015883/1] Funding Source: Medline
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Nitric oxide (NO) is generated in biological systems primarily via the activity of NO synthases and nitrate and nitrite reductases. Here we show that Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. typhimurium) grown anaerobically with nitrate is capable of generating polarographically detectable NO after nitrite (NO2-) addition. NO accumulation is sensitive to the NO scavenger 2-(4-carboxyphenyl)-4,4,5,5-tetramethylimidazoline-1-oxyl-3-oxide. Neither an fnr mutant nor an fnr hmp double mutant produces NO, indicating the involvement in NO evolution from NO2- of protein(s) positively regulated by FNR. Contrary to previous findings in Escherichia coli, we demonstrate that neither the periplasmic nitrite reductase (NrfA) nor the cytoplasmic nitrite reductase (NirB) is involved in NO production in S. typhimurium. However, mutant cells lacking the membrane-bound nitrate reductase, NarGHI, and membranes derived from these cells are unable to produce NO, demonstrating that, in wild-type S. typhimurium, this enzyme is responsible for NO production. Membrane terminal oxidases cannot account for the NO levels measured. The nitrate reductase inhibitor, azide, abrogates NO evolution by Salmonella, and production of NO occurs only in the absence from the assays of nitrate; both features reveal a marked similarity between the NO-generating activities of this bacterium and plants. Unlike the situation in E. coli, an S. typhimurium hmp mutant produces NO both aerobically and anaerobically. Under aerobic conditions, when a functional flavohemoglobin is present, no NO is detectable. We propose a homeostatic mechanism in S. typhimurium, in which NO produced from NO2- by nitrate reductase derepresses Hmp expression (via FNR and NsrR) and NorV expression (via NorR) and thus limits NO toxicity.
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