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Published on: October 10, 2020
Preventive effect of curcumin and quercetin against nitric oxide mediated modification of goat lung cystatin
Mohd Shahnawaz Khan1, Medha Priyadarshini, Bilqees Bano
1Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of life sciences, AMU Aligarh UP, India.
Abstract:
Cysteine proteinase inhibitors are of prime physiologic importance inside the cells, controlling the activities of lysosomal cysteine proteases. The present work aimed to realize the effects of nitric oxide on the structure and function of goat lung cystatin (GLC) and to evaluate antinitrostative efficacy of curcumin and quercetin. Nitric oxide induced structural modifications were followed by fluorescence spectroscopy and PAGE and functional inactivation by monitoring the inhibition of caseinolytic activity of papain. Ten millimolar sodium nitroprusside (SNP) caused time dependent inactivation of GLC-I with complete functional loss precipitating at 180 min. Curcumin (50 microM) and quercetin (250 microM) opposed such loss in papain inhibitory activity of GLC-I. Loss in tertiary structure of GLC-I (fluorescence quenching and 15 nm red shift) was observed on SNP treatment. Inhibition of functional and structural SNP mediated damage of GLC-I by curcumin (50 microM) and quercetin (250 microM) reaffirms their NO scavenging potency.
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