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1 Laboratory of Respiratory Physiology, Unité de Formation et de Recherche Cochin Port-Royal, Paris V University, and 2 Medical Intensive Care Unit, Cochin Port-Royal Hospital, Paris, France; 3 Institute of Biochemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland; and 4 Laboratory of Biology of Oxidative Stress, Biochemistry C, A. Michallon Hospital, Grenoble, France
The free radicals nitric oxide
(·NO) and superoxide (O2
·) react to form
peroxynitrite (ONOO
), a highly toxic oxidant species. In
this study we investigated the respective effects of NO and
ONOO
in monocytes from healthy human donors. Purified
monocytes were incubated for 6 or 16 h with a pure NO donor
(S-nitroso-N-acetyl-DL-penicillamine, 0-2 mM), an ·NO/ONOO
donor
(3-morpholinosydnonimine chlorhydrate, 0-2 mM) with and without
superoxide dismutase (200 IU/ml), or pure ONOO
. We
provide evidence that 3-morpholinosydnonimine chlorhydrate alone
represents a strong stress to human monocytes leading to a
dose-dependent increase in heat shock protein-70 (HSP70) expression, mitochondrial membrane depolarization, and cell death by apoptosis and
necrosis. These phenomena were abolished by superoxide dismutase, suggesting that ONOO
, but not ·NO, was responsible for
the observed effects. This observation was further strengthened by the
absence of a stress response in cells exposed to
S-nitroso-N-acetyl-DL-penicillamine. Conversely, exposure of cells to ONOO
alone also induced
mitochondrial membrane depolarization and cell death by apoptosis and
necrosis. Thus ONOO
formation may well explain the toxic
effect generally attributed to ·NO.
nitric oxide; heat shock; cell stress; cell death
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