Abstract
The 1H NMR chemical shifts of the heme methyl groups of the ferriheme complex of metneuroglobin (Du et al. in J. Am. Chem. Soc. 125:8080–8081, 2003) predict orientations of the axial histidine ligands (Shokhirev and Walker in J. Biol. Inorg. Chem. 3:581–594, 1998) that are not consistent with the X-ray data (Vallone et al. in Proteins Struct. Funct. Bioinf. 56:85–94, 2004), and the EPR spectrum (Vinck et al. in J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126:4516–4517, 2004) is only marginally consistent with these data. The reasons for these inconsistencies appear to be rooted in the high degree of aqueous solution exposure of the heme group and the fact that there are no strong hydrogen-bond acceptors for the histidine imidazole N–H protons provided by the protein. Similar inconsistencies may exist for other water-soluble heme proteins, and 1H NMR spectroscopy provides a simple means to verify whether the solution structure of the heme center is the same as or different from that in the crystalline state.
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Walker, F.A. The heme environment of mouse neuroglobin: histidine imidazole plane orientations obtained from solution NMR and EPR spectroscopy as compared with X-ray crystallography. J Biol Inorg Chem 11, 391–397 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00775-006-0095-8
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