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Nature Chemical Biology 2, 452 - 453 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nchembio0906-452
Copper and nitric oxide meet in the plasma
Tamika K Samuel1 & Jonathan D Gitlin1
- Tamika K. Samuel and Jonathan D. Gitlin are in the Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA. e-mail: gitlin@wustl.edu
Abstract
Nitrite is an inorganic anion essential in cell signaling and vascular biology. A new study shows that the multicopper oxidase ceruloplasmin is critical for maintaining plasma nitrite, revealing a new link between copper and nitric oxide homeostasis.
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