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proteolysis and tenderness that have been ines to form nitrosothiols that can alter the
observed in meat. activity of the protein. Because of this, it
has been suggested that S-nitrosylation may
function as a post-translational modification
Nitric Oxide and S-Nitrosylation
much like phosphorylation (Jaffrey et al.
Nitric oxide (NO) is often used as a general 2001). Some proteins, such as the ryanodine
term that includes NO and reactive nitrogen receptor and the cysteine protease caspase-
species (RNS), like S-nitrosothyols, per- 3, have been shown to be endogenously
oxynitrate, and metal NO complexes. In nitrosylated, further supporting the sugges-
living tissue, NO is involved in arteriole dila- tion that formation of nitrosothiols may be
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