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ReviewFree radical biology & medicine2013

Hemoglobin-mediated nitric oxide signaling.

Christine Helms, Daniel B Kim-Shapiro

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Review in Free radical biology & medicine, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 70 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
70citing papers in PubMed
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

70 citing papers in PubMed, 136 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Haemolytic injury and cardiovascular disease.Nature reviews. Cardiology · 2026
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  10. Regulation of nitric oxide generation and consumption.International journal of biological sciences · 2025
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  12. Hemoglobin as an oxygen gasoreceptor.Acta biochimica Polonica · 2025
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  18. A metabolic perspective on nitric oxide function in melanoma.Biochimica et biophysica acta. Reviews on cancer · 2024
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10 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Christine HelmsDepartment of Physics and Translational Science Center, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109, USA.
Daniel B Kim-ShapiroDepartment of Physics and Translational Science Center, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109, USA. Electronic address: shapiro@wfu.edu.
Wake Forest University · US

Funding

Storage Lesion in Banked Blood Due to Disruption of Nitric Oxide HomeostasisR01HL098032 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Mark T Gladwin · 2009 to 2026
$12.5M
Effects of Nitric Oxide in Sickle Cell BloodR37HL058091 · NHLBI · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY · PI KIM-SHAPIRO, DANIEL B · 2007 to 2016
$3.5M
Effects of Nitric Oxide in Sickle Cell BloodR01HL058091 · NHLBI · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY · PI KIM-SHAPIRO, DANIEL B · 2002 to 2006
$1.6M
MECHANISM AND KINETICS OF SICKLE CELL HEMOGLOBINR29HL058091 · NHLBI · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY · PI KIM-SHAPIRO, DANIEL B · 1998 to 2002
$260k
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The rate that hemoglobin reacts with nitric oxide (NO) is limited by how fast NO can diffuse into the heme pocket. The reaction is as fast as any ligand/protein reaction can be and the result, when hemoglobin is in its oxygenated form, is formation of nitrate in what is known as the dioxygenation reaction. As nitrate, at the concentrations made through the dioxygenation reaction, is biologically inert, the only role hemoglobin was once thought to play in NO signaling was to inhibit it. However, there are now several mechanisms that have been discovered by which hemoglobin may preserve, control, and even create NO activity. These mechanisms involve compartmentalization of reacting species and conversion of NO from or into other species such as nitrosothiols or nitrite which could transport NO activity. Despite the tremendous amount of work devoted to this field, major questions concerning precise mechanisms of NO activity preservation as well as if and how Hb creates NO activity remain unanswered.

Indexed as

AnimalsHemoglobinsHumansNitric OxideNitritesOxidation-ReductionSignal TransductionHemoglobinsNitric OxideNitritesHemoglobinNitric oxideNitrite

Identifiers

PMID23624304
PMCPMC3849136
OpenAlexW2022734495

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