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. 1983 Nov;44(2):177–183. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(83)84289-1

Proton magnetic resonance study of the influence of heme 2,4 substituents on the exchange rates of labile protons in the heme pocket of myoglobin.

G N La Mar, R Krishnamoorthi
PMCID: PMC1434828  PMID: 6317075

Abstract

Four exchangeable protons with large hyperfine shifts are assigned in the heme pocket of sperm whale met-cyano myoglobin reconstituted with heme possessing acetyl groups, ethyl groups, bromines, and hydrogens at the 2,4 position, using both relaxation and chemical-shift data. The four protons arise from the ring NH's of the proximal (F8), distal (E7), and FG2 histidines, and the peptide NH of His F8. The similarity of all chemical shifts to those of the native protein as well as the invariance of the relaxation rates of the distal histidyl ring NH dictate essentially the same structure for the heme cavity of both native and reconstituted proteins. The exchange rates with bulk water of the four labile proteins in each modified protein were determined by saturation-transfer and line width methods. All four labile protons were found to have the same exchange rate as in the native protein for acetyl and ethyl 2,4 substituents; the two resolved labile protons in the derivative with 2,4 bromine were also unchanged. The reconstituted protein with hydrogens at the 2,4 position exhibited slower exchange rates for three of the four protons, indicating an increased dynamic stability of the heme pocket in the absence of bulky 2,4 substituents.

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