Journal
REDOX BIOLOGY
Volume 41, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.redox.2021.101882
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Nitric oxide; Reactive oxygen species; Uric acid; Xanthine oxidoreductase
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- Alma Mater Studiorum -University of Bologna
- Pallotti Legacies for Cancer Research
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Human xanthine oxidoreductase (XOR) is a versatile enzyme with various activities, including purine catabolism, production of reactive oxygen species, generation of nitric oxide, and NADH oxidase activity. These activities contribute to metabolism of compounds and play a key role in inflammatory defense.
Human xanthine oxidoreductase (XOR) is a multiple-level regulated enzyme, resulting from a complicated evolutionary process that assigned it many physiological roles. The main XOR activities are: (i) xanthine dehydrogenase (XDH) activity that performs the last two steps of purine catabolism, from hypoxanthine to uric acid; (ii) xanthine oxidase (XO) activity that, besides purine catabolism, produces reactive oxygen species (ROS); (iii) nitrite reductase activity that generates nitric oxide, contributing to vasodilation and regulation of blood pressure; (iv) NADH oxidase activity that produces ROS. All these XOR activities contribute also to metabolize various endogenous and exogenous compounds, including some drugs. About XOR products, it should be considered that (i) uric acid is not only a proinflammatory agent, but also a fundamental antioxidant molecule in serum and (ii) XOR-derived ROS are essential to the inflammatory defensive response. Although XOR has been the object of a large number of studies, most of them were focused on the pathological consequences of its activity and there is not a clear and schematic picture of XOR physiological roles. In this review, we try to fill this gap, reporting and graphically schematizing the main roles of XOR and its products.
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