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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Free Radic Biol Med. 2009 Oct 9;48(1):55–64. doi: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2009.10.026

Table 2.

Rate constants used for kinetic simulations.

# Reaction Published Rate
Constant
Ref Rate constant
used in
simulations (if
different)
1 Sper/NO → 2NO 5 × 10−5 s−1 a 4.62 × 10−5 s−1
2 2NO + O2 → 2NO2 2 × 106 M−2 s−1 [21]
3 NO + NO2 ⇌ N2O3 1.1 × 109 M−1 s−1 [29]
8.1 × 104 s−1 [29]
4 N2O3 + GSH → GSNO(1) + HNO2 6.6 × 107 M−1 s−1 [36] 7 × 108 M−1 s−1
5 N2O3→2HNO2 4.75 × 104 s−1 [7]b
6 NO2 + GSH → GS· + HNO2 2.2 × 107 M−1 s−1 [37]
7 GS· + NO → GSNO(2) 3 × 109 M−1 s−1 [38]
8 GS· + GS· → GSSG 1 × 109 M−1 s−1 [38]
9 GS· + GSH ⇌ GSSG· 7 × 107 M−1 s−1 [39]
2.3 × 105 s−1 [39]
10 GSSG· + O2 → GSSG + O2 5 × 109 M−1 s−1 [40]
11 NO + O2→ ONOO 1.9 × 1010 M−1 s−1 [41]
12 ONOO +GSH →GSOH+HNO2 660 M−1 s−1 [42]
13 GSOH+GSH →GSSG 1 × 105 M−1 s−1 estimate
14 ONOO →OH· + NO2 0.35 s−1 [43]
15 OH· + GSH →GS· 1 × 109 M−1 s−1 fast
16 ONOO →NO3 0.9 s−1 [43]
17 OH· + NO →HNO2 1 × 109 M−1 s−1 fast
18 GS· + DMPO →GSDMPO 6.4 × 105 M−1
s−1
19 NO + GSH ⇌ GSNOH 10 M−1 s−1
1000 s−1
20 GSNOH+O2 →GSNO(3) + O2 1 × 10−3 M−1 s−1
a

Calculated from a half-life of 230 minutes at 22 °C.

b

Calculated from k=(530 + 9.4×104[Phosphate]) s−1