Chemistry Letters, Vol.33, No.1, 80-81, 2004
Quenching of peroxynitrite by lycopene in vitro
We investigated in vitro the reactivity of lycopene toward peroxynitrite and identified the reaction products after scavenging peroxynitrite. On the basis of these studies, we propose a mechanism for peroxynitrite scavenging action of lycopene.