Quantifying Nitric Oxide Flux Distributions.

Publication Year
2020

Type

Journal Article
Abstract

Nitric oxide (NO) is a radical that is used as an attack molecule by immune cells. NO can interact and damage a range of biomolecules, and the biological outcome for bacteria assaulted with NO will be governed by how the radical distributes within their biochemical reaction networks. Measurement of those NO fluxes is complicated by the low abundance and transience of many of its reaction products. To overcome this challenge, we use computational modeling to translate measurements of several biochemical species (e.g., NO, O, NO) into NO flux distributions. In this chapter, we provide a detailed protocol, which includes experimental measurements and computational modeling, to estimate the NO flux distribution in an Escherichia coli culture. Those fluxes will have uncertainty associated with them and we also discuss how further experiments and modeling can be employed for flux refinement.

Journal
Methods Mol Biol
Volume
2088
Pages
161-188
Date Published
2020
ISSN Number
1940-6029
Alternate Journal
Methods Mol Biol
PMID
31893374