Interaction of human adult methemoglobin in low-spin state with inositol hexaphosphate. A proton magnetic resonance study |
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Authors: | Saburo Neya Isao Morishima |
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Affiliation: | Department of Hydrocarbon Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606, Japan |
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Abstract: | The hyperfine-shifted proton nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra of the low-spin complexes of human adult methemoglobin were found to be much altered by the addition of inositol hexaphosphate (IHP). The stoichiometry and pH-dependence of IHP binding, and the spin equilibrium of azide methemoglobin are parallel to those of high-spin human methemoglobin and of carp methemoglobin, both of which are proposed to be switched from the R to T states with IHP. The present NMR results show that IHP affects the structure of human methemoglobin regardless of the spin state of the heme iron, suggesting that there is no correspondence between quaternary structure and the spin state of ferric heme iron. |
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