The magnetic properties of myoglobin as studied by NMR spectroscopy

Chemistry : a European Journal
Ivano BertiniLuigi Casella

Abstract

Deoxymyoglobin has been investigated by NMR spectroscopy to determine the magnetic anisotropy through pseudocontact shifts and the total magnetic susceptibility through Evans measurements. The magnetic anisotropy values were found to be Deltachi(ax)=-2.03+/-0.08 x 10(-32) m(3) and Deltachi(rh)=-1.02+/-0.09 x 10(-32) m(3). The negative value of the axial susceptibility anisotropy originates from the z tensor axis lying in the heme plane, unlike all other heme systems investigated so far. This magnetic axis is almost exactly orthogonal to the axial histidine plane. The other two axes lie essentially in the histidine plane, the closest to the heme normal being tilted by about 36 degrees from it, towards pyrrole A on the side of the proximal histidine. From the comparison with cytochrome c' it clearly appears that the position of the one axis lying in the heme plane is related to the axial histidine orientation. Irrespective of the directions, the magnetic anisotropy is smaller than that of the analogous reduced cytochrome c' and of the order of that of low-spin iron(III). The magnetic anisotropy of the system permits the measurement of residual dipolar couplings, which, together with pseudocontact shifts, prove that the solution s...Continue Reading

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