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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 May 7.
Published in final edited form as: J Theor Biol. 2008 Jan 20;252(1):24–38. doi: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.01.010

Table A1.

Definitions and estimates of model parameters

Effect Parameter Est’d Value LHS Rangea References
NF-κB turnover a1 2.4 h−1 [0.01, 50] (Hoffmann et al., 2002)
Stat1 turnover a2 2.77 h−1 [0.01, 50] (Haspel et al., 1996)
iNOS mRNA turnover a3 0.173 h−1 [0.116, 0.347] (Ray & Kirschner, 2006)
INOS turnover a4 0.0693 h−1 [0.0365, 0.693] (Ray & Kirschner, 2006)
NHA turnover a5 5.545 µmol/h [5.454, 332.711] (Ray & Kirschner, 2006)
NO turnover a6 2.773 h−1 [2.727, 166.355] (Ray & Kirschner, 2006)
LIP turnover a7 32.201 µmol/h [2.565, 61.820] (Ray & Kirschner, 2006)
Ferritin turnover a8 40.0 µmol/h [4, 89] (Ray & Kirschner, 2006)
IRP turnover a9 35.0 µmol−1 h−1 [29.17, 44.06] (Ray & Kirschner, 2006)
NF-κB reg. by TNF g111 1.18 Not Varied (Harant et al., 1996)
TNF conc. scaling dTNF 117.4 Not Varied (Harant et al., 1996)
Stat1 reg. by IFN-γ g212 cf. Table A2 Not Varied cf. Table A2
IFN-γ conc. scaling dIFN-γ 20 Not Varied cf. Table A2
NF-κB txn reg. g31 cf. Table A2 [0.1, 1.5] cf. Table A2
Stat1 txn reg. g32 0.26 [0.1, 1] cf. Table A2
LIP txn reg. g37 −0.177 [−0.1, −2] (Ray & Kirschner, 2006)
NO feedback to NF-κB g16 cf. Table A2 [−0.3, −1.5] (Hattori et al., 2004); cf. Table A2
NO feedback to Stat1 g26 −0.5 [−0.3, −1.5] (Ray & Kirschner, 2006)
Translation g43 1 Not Varied (Ray & Kirschner, 2006)
Arg NHA reg. g54 1 Not Varied (Ray & Kirschner, 2006)
NHA NO reg. h54 1 Not Varied (Ray & Kirschner, 2006)
reg. Of iron influx g79 0.5 [0.1, 1.5] (Ray & Kirschner, 2006)
LIP sequestration h78 0.74 Not Varied (Kakhlon et al., 2001)
IRP reg. of ferritin g89 −0.645 [−0.1, −2] (Ray & Kirschner, 2006)
LIP Ferritin h87 1 Not Varied (Ray & Kirschner, 2006)
NO reg. of IRP h96 −0.5 [−0.1, −1] (Ray & Kirschner, 2006)
LIP reg. of IRP h97 0.5 [0.4, 2] (Ray & Kirschner, 2006)
Mtb growth rate αb 0.0250 Mtb/h [0.0191, 0.0385] Avg. of (Graham & Clark-Curtiss, 1999; Manca et al., 1999; Silver et al., 1998; Zhang et al., 1998)
NO reg. of Mtb growth gbNO −0.5 [−0.3, −1.5] Initial guess
Iron enhancement of Mtb growth gbLIP 1 [0.3, 1.0] Initial guess
Iron effect saturation kbLIP 1 [0.1, 2] Initial guess
Intrinsic Mtb death rate βb 2.5×10−4 Mtb/h [2.5 × 10−5, 2.5 × 10−4] 1 % of αb
Killing by NO hbNO 0.75 [0.1, 2] Initial guessb
NF-κB reg. by LAM gκB 0.2 Not Varied cf. Table A2
Sloughed LAM σ 120 Mtb−1 [10, 10000] (Nigou et al., 2000)
Scaling of Mtb on LIP kLIPb 106 Mtb−1 Not Varied Initial guess
Effect of Mtb on LIP hLIPb 0.05 [0.1, 0.001] Initial guess
Maximum Mtb per Mϕ bmax 50 Mtb/Mϕ Not Varied Guess from (Paul et al., 1996; Zhang et al., 1998)
a

LHS: Latin hypercube sampling.

b

Calibrated to achieve approximately 50% killing at the default cytokine dose for default parameter values.