An Unusually Stable S-Nitrosothiol from Glutathione

  • Park, Jeen-Woo (Department of Biochemistry, College of Natural Sciences, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Means, Gary-E. (Department of Biochemistry, Ohio State University)
  • Published : 1989.12.01

Abstract

Glutathione was converted by $HNO_2$ into a S-nitrosothiol which was stable in solution and atypically so even as a solid. FAB/MS and IR data have been obtained for the confirmation of structure of S-nitrosogulathione in the crystalline state.

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