Recent data has shown that nitrolinoleic acid (LNO
2), an electrophilic derivative of linoleicacid, has several important bioactivities including antiinflammatory, antiplatelet, vasorelaxation, and-asa novel potent ligand of PPAR
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-transcription regulating activities. Moreover, LNO
2 is formed in abundancein vivo at levels sufficient to mediate these bioactivities. In order to investigate the role of glutathioneconjugation and MRP1-mediated efflux in the regulation of PPAR
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-dependent LNO
2 signaling, regioisomersof LNO
2 were synthesized and characterized. Analysis by 1D and 2D
1H and
13C NMR revealed that theLNO
2 preparation consisted of four, rather than two, nitrated regioisomers in approximately equalabundance. At physiologic pH and intracellular glutathione levels, LNO
2 was rapidly and quantitativelyconverted to glutathione conjugates (LNO
2-SG) via Michael addition. MRP1 mediated efficient ATP-dependent transport of LNO
2-SG. Using a PPRE-containing reporter gene transiently transfected intoMRP-poor MCF7/WT cells, we verified that the LNO
2 mixture was a potent activator of PPAR
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-dependenttranscription. However, expression of MRP1 in the stably transduced MCF7 derivative, MCF7/MRP1-10, resulted in strong inhibition of LNO
2-induced transcription activation. Taken together, these resultssuggest that glutathione conjugation and MRP1-mediated conjugate transport can attenuate LNO
2 bioactivityand thereby play important roles in the regulation of cellular signaling by LNO
2.