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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Aug 8.
Published in final edited form as: Biochemistry. 2010 Mar 16;49(10):2150–2158. doi: 10.1021/bi9021507

Table 1.

CO, O2, and NO Binding to Ferrous Heme Complexesa

CO (FeII) O2 (FeII) NO (FeII)




k on k off K D k on k off K D M k on k off K D E m7 ref
chelated protoheme 11000 25 × 10−3 2.3 × 10−3 62000 4200 68 29500 180 2.9 × 10−4 1.6 × 10−6 −80 8385
MPO 0.14 226 × 10−3 1650 11 1.92 173 0.10 100 4.6 46 5 25, 2828
EPO 0.65 12 × 10−3 19 37 nd nd 1300 24 19 nd 28
LPO 0.59 1.3 × 10−3 2.2 38 11.2 295 134 140 0.25 1.8 −191 28, 86, 87
1.4 29 × 10−3 21
HRP 3 0.1 × 10−3 33 × 10−3 53 0.1 1.9 58 nd nd nd −278 62, 88, 89
CcP 2 9.2 × 10−3 4.6 45 0.22 nd nd −194 9092
Mb 990 36 × 10−3 37 × 10−3 16000 15.6 0.98 26 17000 1.2 × 10−4 7 × 10−6 46 9295
trHbO 14 4 × 10−3 0.29 110 1.4 × 10−3 13 × 10−3 0.05 180 nd nd nd 73
alHbO 190 18 × 10−3 95 × 10−3 1500 4 × 10−3 2.7 × 10−3 0.03 5600 nd nd nd 74
CcO 70 23 × 10−3 0.30 100000 45000 450 1500 100000 0.13 0.013 350 9597
chloroperoxidase 72 2.2 31 550 12 22 0.71 nd nd nd −140 92, 98, 99
cytochrome P450cam 37 0.14 3.8 770 1.1 1.4 0.37 −170 98100
a

Data cited are the association (kon, ×103 M−1 s−1) and dissociation (koff, s−1) rate constants, the corresponding dissociation constant (KD, μM), the partition coefficient (M) for discrimination of CO versus O2 (from ratio of KD values), and the FeIII/FeII midpoint potential measured at pH 7.0 (Em7, mV); nd, not determined.