title: Deuterium exchangeable proton hyperfine resonances of low-spin cytochrome c peroxidase and the mechanism of peroxidase catalysis.
abstract: Deuterium exchangeable hyperfine proton NMR resonances of cytochrome c peroxidase (EC 1.11.1.5) are identified in H2O solutions of the enzyme. One of these is assigned to the proximal histidine's imidazole N-H. Its shift and pH dependence indicate that an imidazolate form, which has been postulated for peroxidases, is ruled out for cytochrome c peroxidase-cyanide. A qualitative comparison of relative heme-pocket dynamics is also possible. When the bulk water resonance is irradiated with a continuous, but off acquisition, decoupler frequency the N-H resonance shows no intensity loss, indicating that saturation transfer between the proximal histidine and solvent water is either minimal, or extremely slow.
mesh_terms: D003578:Cytochrome-c Peroxidase / Q000378:metabolism*; D003903:Deuterium; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D007700:Kinetics; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D010544:Peroxidases / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D003903:Deuterium; D010544:Peroxidases; D003578:Cytochrome-c Peroxidase