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Water and ligand entry in myoglobin: assessing the speed and extent of heme pocket hydration after CO photodissociation.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 31 Jan 2006
Goldbeck Robert A, Bhaskaran Shyam, Ortega Cheri, Mendoza Juan L, Olson John S, Soman Jayashree, Kliger David S, Esquerra Raymond M
Abstract excerpt
A previously undescribed spectrokinetic assay for the entry of water into the distal heme pocket of wild-type and mutant myoglobins is presented. Nanosecond photolysis difference spectra were measured in the visible bands of sperm whale myoglobin as a function of distal pocket mutation and temperature. A small blue shift in the 560-nm deoxy absorption peak marked water entry several hundred nanoseconds after CO...
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