Activating Compound | Comment | Organism | Structure |
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Calmodulin | activates O2 consumption of eNOS | Rattus norvegicus | |
L-arginine | L-arginine strongly stimulates oxygen consumption of eNOS and inhibits that of nNOS, nonhydrolyzable L-arginine analogues are not stimulatory | Rattus norvegicus |
Cloned (Comment) | Organism |
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expression of eNOS in Escherichia coli | Rattus norvegicus |
Inhibitors | Comment | Organism | Structure |
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5,6,7,8-tetrahydrobiopterin | quenches the uncoupled reactions and results in much less reactive oxygen species formation, whereas the presence of redox-incompetent 7,8-dihydrobiopterin demonstrates little quenching effect | Rattus norvegicus | |
L-arginine | L-arginine strongly stimulates oxygen consumption of eNOS and inhibits that of nNOS | Rattus norvegicus |
Metals/Ions | Comment | Organism | Structure |
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Ca2+ | required by eNOS, activates | Rattus norvegicus | |
Fe2+ | a cytochrome P450 enzyme | Rattus norvegicus |
Natural Substrates | Organism | Comment (Nat. Sub.) | Natural Products | Comment (Nat. Pro.) | Rev. | Reac. |
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2 L-arginine + 3 NADPH + 3 H+ + 4 O2 | Rattus norvegicus | - |
2 citrulline + 2 nitric oxide + 3 NADP+ + 4 H2O | - |
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additional information | Rattus norvegicus | eNOS uncoupling is known to be controlled by substrate/cofactor availability, and the uncoupled reactions play important roles under various physiological/pathological conditions, such as atherosclerosis and septic shock | ? | - |
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Organism | UniProt | Comment | Textmining |
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Rattus norvegicus | - |
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Purification (Comment) | Organism |
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recombinant eNOS from Escherichia coli by 2',5'-ADP affinity chromatography | Rattus norvegicus |
Substrates | Comment Substrates | Organism | Products | Comment (Products) | Rev. | Reac. |
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2 L-arginine + 2 NADPH + 2 H+ + 2 O2 | first half reaction via intermediate Nomega-hydroxy-L-arginine | Rattus norvegicus | 2 Nomega-hydroxy-L-arginine + 2 NADP+ + 2 H2O | - |
? | |
2 L-arginine + 3 NADPH + 3 H+ + 4 O2 | - |
Rattus norvegicus | 2 citrulline + 2 nitric oxide + 3 NADP+ + 4 H2O | - |
? | |
2 L-arginine + 3 NADPH + 3 H+ + 4 O2 | complete reaction, oxygen stoichiometry, effects of substrate/cofactor binding on the endothelial NOS isoform, eNOS, overview | Rattus norvegicus | 2 citrulline + 2 nitric oxide + 3 NADP+ + 4 H2O | - |
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additional information | eNOS uncoupling is known to be controlled by substrate/cofactor availability, and the uncoupled reactions play important roles under various physiological/pathological conditions, such as atherosclerosis and septic shock | Rattus norvegicus | ? | - |
? | |
Nomega-hydroxy-L-arginine + NADPH + H+ + O2 | second half reaction via intermediate Nomega-hydroxy-L-arginine | Rattus norvegicus | citrulline + nitric oxide + NADP+ + H2O | - |
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Synonyms | Comment | Organism |
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endothelial nitric-oxide synthase | - |
Rattus norvegicus |
eNOS | - |
Rattus norvegicus |
neuronal nitric-oxide synthase | - |
Rattus norvegicus |
nNOS | - |
Rattus norvegicus |
Temperature Optimum [°C] | Temperature Optimum Maximum [°C] | Comment | Organism |
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24 | - |
assay at | Rattus norvegicus |
pH Optimum Minimum | pH Optimum Maximum | Comment | Organism |
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7.4 | - |
assay at | Rattus norvegicus |
Cofactor | Comment | Organism | Structure |
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cytochrome c | - |
Rattus norvegicus | |
NADPH | - |
Rattus norvegicus |