Model number
0028

Hill Equation for O2 binding binding to hemoglobin

Description

The Hill Equation assumes instantaneous equilibrative binding of oxygen to Hb, 
but if there is delay due to diffusion or a membrane barrier, then the reaction is slowed.
 Antonini and Brunori (1971) and Frauenfelder (Austin et al 1975; Mourant et al 1993)
 showed that the rebinding of O2 to Hb involved a family of rate constants (including a 
fractal scaling region) and the the reaction was complete in less than 50 msec. 

In a related program "HbO.Hill.slow" we apply a trick, 
surrounding the Hb with a barrier to allow accounting for slow rates of association 
and dissociation, and which gives a fairly realistic sccounting for O2
exchange across RBC membranes.

AV Hill's empirical description of the hemoglobin-oxygen 
dissociation curve was based on data before the van Slyke apparatus for measuring 
the content of O2 in blood equilibrated with air at known PO2 and PCO2 was developed.
The simplicity of the equation led to its wide utility, even though it is too low 
at saturations below 30% (a region not often visited physiologically). Other models,
Adair's, Severinghaus', etc. offer improvements over this two parameter
power law relationship.

Equations

The equations for this model may be viewed by running the JSim model applet and clicking on the Source tab at the bottom left of JSim's Run Time graphical user interface. The equations are written in JSim's Mathematical Modeling Language (MML). See the Introduction to MML and the MML Reference Manual. Additional documentation for MML can be found by using the search option at the Physiome home page.

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References
Antonini E and Brunori M: Hemoglobin and Myoglobin in their Reactions with Ligands.
 Amsterdam: North Holland, 1971, 436 pp.

Van Slyke DD and Neill JM: The determination of gases in blood and other solutions 
by vacuum extraction and manometric measurement I.. J Biol Chem 61: 523-573, 1924.

Austin RH, Beeson KW, Eisenstein L, Frauenfelder H, and Gunsalus IC: Dynamics of 
ligand binding to myoglobin. Biochemistry 14: 5355-5375, 1975.

Mourant JR, Braunstein DP, Chu K, Frauenfelder H, Nienhaus GU, Ormos P, and
 Young RD: Ligand binding to heme proteins: II. Transitions in th heme pocket of myoglobin.
 Biophys J 65: 1496-1507, 1993.

Hill AV: The diffusion of oxygen and lactic acid through tissues. 
Proc R Soc Lond (Biol) 104: 39-96, 1928.

Hill AV: The possible effects of the aggregation of the molecules of haemoglobin on its
dissociation curves. J Physiol 40: iv-vii, 1910

Adair GS: The hemoglobin system.  VI.  The oxygen dissociation curve of 
hemoglobin. J Biol Chem 63: 529-545, 1925.

Hill R: Oxygen dissociation curves of muscle hemoglobin. Proc Roy Soc Lond B
120: 472-480, 1936.

 Roughton FJW, Deland EC, Kernohan JC, and Severinghaus JW. Some recent studies of the
oxyhemoglobin dissociation curve of human blood under physiological conditions and the
fitting of the Adair equation to the standard curve. In: Oxygen Affinity of Hemoglobin and
Red Cell Acid Base Status. Proceedings of the Alfred Benzon Symposium IV Held at the
Premises of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen 17-22 May,
1971, edited by Rorth M and Astrup P. Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1972, p. 73-81.

Winslow RM, Swenberg M-L, Berger RL, Shrager RI, Luzzana M, Samaja M,and
Rossi-Bernardi L. Oxygen equilibrium curve of normal human blood and its evaluation by
Adair's equation. J Biol Chem 252: 2331-2337, 1977.
Key terms
hemoglobin
oxygen
carbon dioxide
saturation
Haldane
Bohr
acidity
pH
blood gases
Hill equation
solubility
cooperativity
Data
Acknowledgements

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The National Simulation Resource, Director J. B. Bassingthwaighte, Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle WA 98195-5061.

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