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. 2022 Mar 15;11(3):556. doi: 10.3390/antiox11030556

Table 1.

Summary of studies evaluating MPO-mediated protein oxidation in humans.

Study Subjects Sample Type 3-Chlorotyrosine/Tyrosine (µmol/mol) p
Zheng et al. [14] Healthy (n = 44) plasma protein 1.6 (0.6–2.4)
Coronary vascular disease (n = 45) plasma protein 1.9 (1.3–3.1) 0.070
Healthy (n = 44) plasma apoA-I 186 (114–339)
Coronary vascular disease (n = 45) plasma apoA-I 500 (335–650) <0.001
Aorta (n = 10) total protein 63 (25–128)
Aorta (n = 10) apoA-I 678 (299–1311) <0.001
Aortic atherosclerotic tissue (n = 22) total protein 232 (111–431)
Aortic atherosclerotic tissue (n = 22) apoA-I 3930 (1679–7005) <0.001
Bergt et al. [13] Healthy (n = 8) plasma HDL 3 ± 2
Coronary artery disease (n = 9) plasma HDL 39 ± 7 <0.0001
Atherosclerotic patients (n = 17) plasma HDL 22 ± 7
Atherosclerotic patients (n = 10) lesion HDL 177 ± 27 0.0001
Study Subjects Sample Type Homocitrulline/lysine (µmol/mol) p
Wang et al. [39] Healthy (n = 300) plasma protein 0.11 (0.00–0.52)
Coronary artery disease (n = 137) plasma protein 0.3 (0.02–0.80) <0.001
Peripheral artery disease (n = 62) plasma protein 0.33 (0.0–0.95) <0.001
Coronary and Peripheral artery disease
(n = 49)
plasma protein 0.39 (0.15–0.96) <0.001
Control, event-free (n = 275) plasma protein 0.18 (0.00–0.84)
Revascularization (n = 224) plasma protein 0.33 (0.02–0.93) <0.001
Myocardial infarction or stroke (n = 38) plasma protein 0.33 (0.04–0.84) <0.001
Death (n = 55) plasma protein 0.34 (0.03–0.94) <0.001
Holzer et al. [74] Atherosclerotic patients (n = 5) plasma HDL 215 ± 27
Healthy control vessel (n = 5) lesion HDL 229 ± 32
Atherosclerotic lesion, Type I (n = 5) lesion HDL 1098 ± 189 0.001
Atherosclerotic lesion, Type II/III (n = 5) lesion HDL 1238 ± 84 0.0002
Atherosclerotic lesion, Type IV/V (n = 5) lesion HDL 2270 ± 283 <0.0001
Study Subjects Sample Type 3-NO2-Tyrosine (µmol/mol) p
Pennathur et al. [76] Healthy (n = 5) total protein 8 ± 6
Healthy (n = 5) plasma HDL 57 ± 10 0.010
Healthy (n = 8) plasma HDL 68 ± 7
Coronary vascular disease (n = 9) plasma HDL 136 ± 11 <0.01
Atherosclerotic patients (n = 17) plasma HDL 104 ± 39
Atherosclerotic patients (n = 10) lesion HDL 619 ± 178 <0.01
Zheng et al. [16] Healthy (n = 44) plasma protein 6 (4–8)
Coronary vascular disease (n = 45) plasma protein 9 (6–13) <0.001
Healthy (n = 44) plasma apoA-I 438 (335–598)
Coronary vascular disease (n = 45) plasma apoA-I 629 (431–876) 0.005
Human aorta (n = 10) total protein 55 (24–143)
Human aorta (n = 10) lesion apoA-I 401 (185–637) <0.001
Aortic atherosclerotic tissue (n = 22) total protein 108 (51–346)
Aortic atherosclerotic tissue (n = 22) lesion apoA-I 2340 (1665–5050) <0.001
Shao et al. [77] Atherosclerotic patients (n = 11) plasma HDL 19 ± 13
Atherosclerotic patients (n = 8) lesion HDL 242 ± 160 0.006
Study Subjects Sample Type 3-NO2-Tyrosine166 (% of Total) p
DiDonato et al.
[78]
Healthy (n = 5) plasma protein 0.14 ± 0.02
Healthy (n = 5) plasma HDL n.d.
Healthy (n = 5) plasma LPD 0.13 ± 0.02
Healthy (n = 5) plasma apoA-I 0.12 ± 0.18 n.r.
Atherosclerotic patients (n = 5) tissue protein 7.79 ± 5.57
Atherosclerotic patients (n = 5) lesion HDL 0.23 ± 0.37
Atherosclerotic patients (n = 5) lesion LPD 9.05 ± 4.86 n.r.

LPD, lipoprotein-deficient fraction; n.r., not reported.