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Journals AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology Volume 297 Issue 6

Abstract In catalyzing the reversible hydration of CO 2 to bicarbonate and protons, the ubiquitous enzyme carbonic anhydrase (CA) plays a crucial role in CO 2 transport, in acid-base balance, and in linking local acidosis to O 2 unloading from hemoglobin. Considering the structural similarity between bicarbonate and nitrite, we hypothesized that CA uses nitrite as a substrate to produce the potent vasodilator nitric oxide (NO) to increase local blood flow to metabolically active tissues. Here we show that CA readily reacts with nitrite to generate NO, particularly at low pH, and that the NO produced in the reaction induces vasodilation in aortic rings. This reaction occurs under normoxic and hypoxic conditions and in various tissues at physiological levels of CA and nitrite. Furthermore, two specific inhibitors of the CO 2 hydration, dorzolamide and acetazolamide, increase the CA-catalyzed production of vasoactive NO from nitrite. This enhancing effect may explain the known vasodilating effects of these drugs and indicates that CO 2 and nitrite bind differently to the enzyme active site. Kinetic analyses show a higher reaction rate at high pH, suggesting that anionic nitrite participates more effectively in catalysis. Taken together, our results reveal a novel nitrous anhydrase enzymatic activity of CA that would function to link the in vivo main end products of energy metabolism (CO 2 /H + ) to the generation of vasoactive NO. The CA-mediated NO production may be important to the correlation between blood flow and metabolic activity in tissues, as occurring for instance in active areas of the brain. acetazolamide dorzolamide acidosis neurovascular coupling Copyright © 2009 the American Physiological Society

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Generation of nitric oxide from nitrite by carbonic anhydrase: a possible link between metabolic activity and vasodilation

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  • Publisher American Physiological Society
  • Copyright Copyright © 2011 the American Physiological Society
  • ISSN 0363-6135
  • eISSN 1522-1539
  • D.O.I. 10.1152/ajpheart.00525.2009
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