Flavohemoglobin Detoxifies Nitric Oxide in Aerobic, but Not Anaerobic, Escherichia coli

  • Gardner A
  • Gardner P
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Nitric-oxide dioxygenase (NOD) and reductase (NOR) activities of flavohemoglobin (flavoHb) have been suggested as mechanisms for NO metabolism and detoxification in a variety of microbes. Mechanisms of NO detoxification were tested in Escherichia coli using flavoHb-deficient mutants and overexpressors. flavoHb showed negligible anaerobic NOR activity and afforded no protection to the NO-sensitive aconitase or the growth of anoxic E. coli, whereas the NOD activity and the protection afforded with O2 were substantial. A NO-inducible, O2-sensitive, and cyanide-resistant NOR activity efficiently metabolized NO and protected anaerobic cells from NO toxicity independent of the NOR activity of flavoHb. flavoHb possesses nitrosoglutathione and nitrite reductase activities that may account for the protection it affords against these agents. NO detoxification by flavoHb occurs most effectively via O2-dependent NO dioxygenation.

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Gardner, A. M., & Gardner, P. R. (2002). Flavohemoglobin Detoxifies Nitric Oxide in Aerobic, but Not Anaerobic, Escherichia coli. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 277(10), 8166–8171. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.m110470200

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