“Using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry … 10-fold increase in 3-nitrotyrosine (NO2Y) content, a global marker of protein modification by reactive nitrogen species, … recovered from bronchoalveolar lavage of severe asthmatic patients (480 ± 198 μmol/mol tyrosine ; n = 11) compared with nonasthmatic subjects (52.….7 μmol/mol tyrosine; n = 12).”