Fig. 3.
Dependence of the longitudinal relaxation rate R1 (panel a) and the transverse relaxation rate R2 (panel b) of water protons as a function of the BSA and lysozyme mass concentration, cp. All solutions were prepared in acetate buffer (pH = 4.6 for lysozyme and 4.0 for BSA). The molar concentration of the low molecular mass salt (NaCl, NaNO3, or NaI) added to the aqueous protein-buffer solution was 0.1 mol L−1. All experiments were performed at T = 25 °C. Data for lysozyme are for the sake of comparison replotted from Figure 1. Experimental error bars are smaller than the symbol size.