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. 2004 Sep;87(3):1919–1928. doi: 10.1529/biophysj.104.041616

TABLE 2.

Distribution of rate constants (k, min−1) for H/D exchange at amide bonds in peptic peptides generated from soluble-state SC3

Number of amide hydrogens*
Peptide Sequence NHs Fast (k > 1000) Slow (100 > k > 1) Very slow (0.1 > k)
S47-L54 SSSPVTAL 6 3.6 2.0 0.40
L54-L57 LLGL 3 1.1 1.2 0.7
L55-G59 LGLLG 4 1.6 1.7 0.7
L58-L62 LGIVL 4 2.6 1.3 0.1
I60-L62 IVL 2 1.1 0.9 0
I60-L65 IVLSDL 5 4.6 0.3 0.1
S63-V67 SDLNV 4 2.8 0.7 0.5
N66-G70 NVLVG 4 1.1 2.1 0.8
N66-L68 NVL 2 0 1.8 0.2
L76-S84 LTVIGVGGS 8 7.4 0 0.6
*

The number of peptide amide hydrogens that undergo fast, slow, very slow deuterium exchange were obtained with Eq. 2 and are described by N1, N2, and N3, respectively. NHs indicates the number of possible exchanged amide hydrogens; k indicates the rate constant (min−1) obtained from Eq. 2.