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. 2000 Jun;78(6):3227–3239. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(00)76859-7

Multiple geminate ligand recombinations in human hemoglobin.

R M Esquerra 1, R A Goldbeck 1, S H Reaney 1, A M Batchelder 1, Y Wen 1, J W Lewis 1, D S Kliger 1
PMCID: PMC1300904  PMID: 10827999

Abstract

The geminate ligand recombination reactions of photolyzed carbonmonoxyhemoglobin were studied in a nanosecond double-excitation-pulse time-resolved absorption experiment. The second laser pulse, delayed by intervals as long as 400 ns after the first, provided a measure of the geminate kinetics by rephotolyzing ligands that have recombined during the delay time. The peak-to-trough magnitude of the Soret band photolysis difference spectrum measured as a function of the delay between excitation pulses showed that the room temperature kinetics of geminate recombination in adult human hemoglobin are best described by two exponential processes, with lifetimes of 36 and 162 ns. The relative amounts of bimolecular recombination to T- and R-state hemoglobins and the temperature dependence of the submicrosecond kinetics between 283 and 323 K are also consistent with biexponential kinetics for geminate recombination. These results are discussed in terms of two models: geminate recombination kinetics modulated by concurrent protein relaxation and heterogeneous kinetics arising from alpha and beta chain differences.

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