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The formation of dinitrosyl iron complexes with thiol-containing ligands in plant tissues (parsley and apple leaves) in the presence of nitric monoxide was demonstrated using electron paramagnetic resonance. In two types of tissues dinitrosyl iron complexes are predominantly represented by the binuclear diamagnetic form. This diamagnetic form can be transformed in EPR-detectable mononitrosyl iron complexes with diethyldithiocarbamate due to the ability of diethyldithiocarbamate to accept the iron-mononitrosyl groups from iron-dinitrosyl fragments of binuclear complexes. A similar transformation was observed under the effect of diethyldithiocarbamate on a mononuclear paramagnetic form of dinitrosyl iron complexes. The significant amount of binuclear dinitrosyl iron complexes found in plant tissues suggests that these complexes can be considered as a “working form” of nitric monoxide, which is recognized now as a universal regulator of metabolic processes in plants as well as in other organisms.
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Abbreviations
- DNICs:
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dinitrosyl iron complexes
- M-DNICs:
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mononuclear (paramagnetic) DNICs
- B-DNICs:
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binuclear (diamagnetic) DNICs
- EPR:
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electron paramagnetic resonance
- DETC:
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diethyldithiocarbamate
- MNIC–DETC:
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mononitrosyl iron complexes with diethyldithiocarbamate
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Original Russian Text © V.D. Mikoyan, L.S. Vanina, A.F. Vanin, 2017, published in Biofizika, 2017, Vol. 62, No. 3, pp. 559–564.
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Mikoyan, V.D., Vanina, L.S. & Vanin, A.F. Dinitrosyl iron complexes with thiol-containing ligands in plant tissues. BIOPHYSICS 62, 450–455 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0006350917030125
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