title: A kinetic platform to determine the fate of nitric oxide in Escherichia coli.
abstract: Nitric oxide (NO•) is generated by the innate immune response to neutralize pathogens. NO• and its autoxidation products have an extensive biochemical reaction network that includes reactions with iron-sulfur clusters, DNA, and thiols. The fate of NO• inside a pathogen depends on a kinetic competition among its many targets, and is of critical importance to infection outcomes. Due to the complexity of the NO• biochemical network, where many intermediates are short-lived and at extremely low concentrations, several species can be measured, but stable products are non-unique, and damaged biomolecules are continually repaired or regenerated, kinetic models are required to understand and predict the outcome of NO• treatment. Here, we have constructed a comprehensive kinetic model that encompasses the broad reactivity of NO• in Escherichia coli. The incorporation of spontaneous and enzymatic reactions, as well as damage and repair of biomolecules, allowed for a detailed analysis of how NO• distributes in E. coli cultures. The model was informed with experimental measurements of NO• dynamics, and used to identify control parameters of the NO• distribution. Simulations predicted that NO• dioxygenase (Hmp) functions as a dominant NO• consumption pathway at O2 concentrations as low as 35 µM (microaerobic), and interestingly, loses utility as the NO• delivery rate increases. We confirmed these predictions experimentally by measuring NO• dynamics in wild-type and mutant cultures at different NO• delivery rates and O2 concentrations. These data suggest that the kinetics of NO• metabolism must be considered when assessing the importance of cellular components to NO• tolerance, and that models such as the one described here are necessary to rigorously investigate NO• stress in microbes. This model provides a platform to identify novel strategies to potentiate the effects of NO•, and will serve as a template from which analogous models can be generated for other organisms.
authors: Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
authors: Jonathan L
authors: JL
authors: Robinson
authors: Mark P
authors: MP
authors: Brynildsen
mesh_terms: D000332:Aerobiosis / Q000502:physiology; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000502:physiology; D007700:Kinetics; D053858:Metabolic Networks and Pathways / Q000502:physiology; D008954:Models, Biological; D009569:Nitric Oxide / Q000032:analysis / Q000378:metabolism*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results
chemical_list: D009569:Nitric Oxide
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