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. 1995 Jun;68(6):2531–2542. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(95)80436-4

Electron-electron spin-spin interaction in spin-labeled low-spin methemoglobin.

V Budker 1, J L Du 1, M Seiter 1, G R Eaton 1, S S Eaton 1
PMCID: PMC1282163  PMID: 7647256

Abstract

Nitroxyl free radical electron spin relaxation times for spin-labeled low-spin methemoglobins were measured between 6 and 120 K by two-pulse electron spin echo spectroscopy and by saturation recovery electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR). Spin-lattice relaxation times for cyano-methemoglobin and imidazole-methemoglobin were measured between 8 and 25 K by saturation recovery and between 4.2 and 20 K by electron spin echo. At low temperature the iron electron spin relaxation rates are slow relative to the iron-nitroxyl electron-electron spin-spin splitting. As temperature is increased, the relaxation rates for the Fe(III) become comparable to and then greater than the spin-spin splitting, which collapses the splitting in the continuous wave EPR spectra and causes an increase and then a decrease in the nitroxyl electron spin echo decay rate. Throughout the temperature range examined, interaction with the Fe(III) increases the spin lattice relaxation rate (1/T1) for the nitroxyl. The measured relaxation times for the Fe(III) were used to analyze the temperature-dependent changes in the spin echo decays and in the saturation recovery (T1) data for the interacting nitroxyl and to determine the interspin distance, r. The values of r for three spin-labeled methemoglobins were between 15 and 15.5 A, with good agreement between values obtained by electron spin echo and saturation recovery. Analysis of the nitroxyl spin echo and saturation recovery data also provides values of the iron relaxation rates at temperatures where the iron relaxation rates are too fast to measure directly by saturation recovery or electron spin echo spectroscopy. These results demonstrate the power of using time-domain EPR measurements to probe the distance between a slowly relaxing spin and a relatively rapidly relaxing metal in a protein.

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