Protein S-Nitrosylation Regulates Postmortem Beef Apoptosis through the Intrinsic Mitochondrial Pathway.

The objective of the present study was to investigate the regulatory mechanism of protein S-nitrosylation on early postmortem beef muscle apoptosis. Beef semimembranosus (SM) muscles at 45 min postmortem were treated with nitric oxide (NO) donor, control (NaCl solution), or nitric oxide synthase (NOS) inhibitor for 24 h at 4 °C. Bcl-2 expression and mitochondrial membrane potential were significantly increased by the NO donor treatment at 6 h postmortem, while the NOS inhibitor group exhibited a lower Bcl-2 level and mitochondrial membrane potential in comparison with the control ( < 0.

Proteomics identification of differential S-nitrosylated proteins between the beef with intermediate and high ultimate pH using isobaric iodoTMT switch assay.

This study aimed to identify the differential S-nitrosylated proteins at post-mortem in beef longissimus thoracis (LT) muscles from carcasses with intermediate (5.40 < pH < 5.80, n = 6) and high (pH ≥ 6.