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SUBMITTER: Yosca TH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4091272 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yosca Timothy H TH Behan Rachel K RK Krest Courtney M CM Onderko Elizabeth L EL Langston Matthew C MC Green Michael T MT
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20140613 25
To provide insight into the iron(IV)hydroxide pK(a) of histidine ligated heme proteins, we have probed the active site of myoglobin compound II over the pH range of 3.9-9.5, using EXAFS, Mössbauer, and resonance Raman spectroscopies. We find no indication of ferryl protonation over this pH range, allowing us to set an upper limit of 2.7 on the iron(IV)hydroxide pK(a) in myoglobin. Together with the recent determination of an iron(IV)hydroxide pK(a) ∼ 12 in the thiolate-ligated heme enzyme cytoch ...[more]