期刊
NITRIC OXIDE-BIOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY
卷 33, 期 -, 页码 74-80出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.niox.2013.06.008
关键词
Hemoglobin; Nitrite; Nitric oxide; Reductase; Kinetics
资金
- Leverhulme Trust [F/00 213/T]
The production of nitric oxide by the nitrite reductase activity of hemoglobin has been proposed to play a major role in hypoxic vasodilation. The bimolecular reaction rate constant for nitric oxide formation is a complex function of hemoglobin oxygenation stemming from the intrinsic allosteric character of hemoglobin, resulting in an unsymmetrical inverted U shape profile of activity versus oxygen saturation. We present an analysis of the hemoglobin nitrite reductase activity based on the Monod Wyman Changeux (MWC) allosteric model and derive a set of equations that enabled us to express the rate constant of bimolecular reaction of nitrite with hemoglobin as a function of hemoglobin saturation and use this expression to explore the factors controlling the shape of the nitrite reductase activity versus hemoglobin saturation curve. From the value of the maximum reductase activity, we derive equations to calculate microscopic nitrite reductase reaction rate constants for the R and T quaternary states. We have also developed two methods to parameterize the MWC model based on the Hill equation, with its parameters, h and P-50. and the knowledge that these two descriptions of the binding curve coincide in the region of the curve where h is defined. This has allowed the calculation of the hemoglobin nitrite reductase activity rate profiles for the human hemoglobin and for bovine hemoglobin. The properties of these rate profiles are discussed. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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