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Proposed equilibria involving heme axial ligands in the ferrous state. K1 and K2 are decoordination constants. K3 is the lysine acid dissociation constant in the bis-histidine state. The five-coordinate species (bracketed) is included for generality as many hexacoordinate globins have weak distal ligand affinity.
