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Published in final edited form as: Chem Rev. 2015 Jan 21;115(4):1702–1724. doi: 10.1021/cr500495x

Table 4.

His pKa values in deoxy Hb determined by NMR and calculated from several T-type crystal structures using minimized WHATIF structures, and absolute deviations (numbers in parentheses) of the calculated values from the experimental values.

Subunit ResID NMR 2DN2 4HHB 1BZ0 1RQ3 1XXT 1KD2
α 20 7.02 6.14 [0.88] 7.11 [0.09] 6.93 [0.09] 6.95 [0.07] 6.95 [0.07] 6.78 [0.24]
α 45 5.25 5.88 [0.63] 5.90 [0.65] 5.85 [0.60] 5.64 [0.39] 5.56 [0.31] 6.01 [0.76]
α 50 7.14 7.50 [0.36] 7.35 [0.21] 7.30 [0.16] 7.15 [0.00] 7.21 [0.07] 7.05 [0.09]
α 58 4.33 4.54 4.06 3.54 3.79 4.55
α 72 7.47 6.69 [0.78] 6.67 [0.80] 6.72 [0.75] 6.89 [0.59] 6.74 [0.73] 6.68 [0.80]
α 87 2.95 3.05 3.28 3.45 3.89 3.43
α 89 6.80 6.82 [0.02] 6.78 [0.02] 6.46 [0.34] 6.82 [0.02] 6.77 [0.03] 6.54 [0.26]
α 103 3.92 4.19 3.58 3.60 3.55 4.37
α 112 7.49 6.64 [0.85] 6.93 [0.56] 6.66 [0.83] 6.60 [0.89] 6.89 [0.60] 6.84 [0.65]
α 122 0.53 0.64 0.78 0.99 0.82 1.08
β 2 6.17 5.61 [0.56] 5.51 [0.66] 5.27 [0.90] 4.97 [1.20] 5.12 [1.05] 5.70 [0.47]
β 63 4.93 5.30 4.84 5.69 4.82 3.85
β 77 7.46 6.76 [0.70] 6.70 [0.76] 6.89 [0.57] 6.92 [0.54] 6.83 [0.63] 7.05 [0.41]
β 92 3.61 3.70 3.56 3.22 3.14 3.73
β 97 8.01 7.13 [0.88] 7.26 [0.75] 7.02 [0.99] 7.12 [0.89] 7.04 [0.97] 7.04 [0.97]
β 116 6.35 6.55 [0.20] 6.64 [0.29] 6.36 [0.01] 5.71 [0.64] 5.62 [0.73] 6.74 [0.39]
β 117 6.43 8.01 [1.58] 8.11 [1.68] 7.44 [1.01] 7.57 [1.14] 7.77 [1.34] 6.28 [0.15]
β 143 4.70 4.08 [0.62] 3.85 [0.85] 4.52 [0.19] 4.82 [0.12] 4.69 [0.02] 4.82 [0.12]
β 146 7.93 8.08 [0.15] 7.58 [0.35] 7.86 [0.07] 7.84 [0.09] 7.81 [0.12] 8.12 [0.19]
Max error [1.58] [1.68] [1.01] [1.20] [1.34] [0.97]
Ave. error [0.63] [0.59] [0.50] [0.51] [0.51] [0.42]

Reprinted with permission from ref. 110. Copyright 2013 American Chemical Society.