title: Electron paramagnetic resonance and magnetic susceptibility studies of dimanganese concanavalin A. Evidence for antiferromagnetic exchange coupling.
abstract: The double Mn2+ complex of concanavalin A with bound saccharide (SMMPL) was examined by electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy and magnetic susceptibility measurements. A room temperature X-band (9 GHz) EPR spectrum of SMMPL revealed a relatively weak, broad resonance in contrast to the spectrum with a six-line hyperfine-split pattern observed for the mononuclear, high-spin Mn2+ complex found in Ca2+-Mn2+-concanavalin A with saccharide present (SCMPL). The EPR spectrum of SMMPL at 77 K, however, consisted of a series of overlapping patterns of 11 hyperfine-split lines near g = 2.0 with members of each pattern separated by 47 G, half the value of the hyperfine splitting of SCMPL. These 11-line patterns are preserved at Q-band (35 GHz), indicating that the manganese ions in SMMPL form a spin-coupled, binuclear center. As expected for an exchange-coupled system, the EPR signal of SMMPL at 77 K saturates at a higher microwave power than those for SCMPL or Mn2+ aquoion. There is also a marked loss of EPR signal intensity for SMMPL between 4.2 and 1.4 K, which supports the view that the pair of manganese ions is exchanged-coupled. The temperature dependence of both the magnetic susceptibility and the low-temperature EPR spectral intensity can be explained by a model in which the two high-spin Mn2+ ions of SMMPL are antierromagnetically exchanged-coupled with an isotropic coupling constant J = 1.8 cm-1 (for the spin Hamiltonian Hex = JS1.S2). Zero-field splitting D' was estimated to be 375 G from the EPR spectrum.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania 18042.
authors.forename: B C
authors.initials: BC
authors.lastname: Antanaitis
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: N D
authors.initials: ND
authors.lastname: Chasteen
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Freedman
authors.forename: S H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Koenig
authors.forename: H R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Lilienthal
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Peisach
authors.forename: C F
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Brewer
mesh_terms: D003208:Concanavalin A; D004578:Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy; D007700:Kinetics; D008280:Magnetics; D008345:Manganese; D008667:Metalloproteins; D011485:Protein Binding; D011487:Protein Conformation; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D008667:Metalloproteins; D003208:Concanavalin A; D008345:Manganese