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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Feb 17.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Chem Soc. 2020 Jan 28;142(5):2115–2119. doi: 10.1021/jacs.9b09985

Figure 1.

Figure 1.

Two possible hydrogen bonding partnerships in the His37 tetrad of the M2 proton channel. (a) One of two pairs of His37 residues showing the low-barrier hydrogen bond model, in which the proton is transferred through the breaking and reforming of the intermonomer imidazole-imidazolium hydrogen bonds between His37 residues; (b) the water-His37 hydrogen bonding model, in which the His37 shuttles protons through imidazole ring reorientations and exchanging protons with water.