title: Reply to the comment on "Sensitive marker bands for the detection of spin states of heme in surface-enhanced resonance Raman scattering spectra of metmyoglobin".
abstract: In our SERRS spectra of metmyoglobin by excitation at 514 nm, the peak at 1510 cm(-1), which is assigned to the 6-coordinated heme in the low spin state, was observed by the addition of imidazole and NaN3. Thus, the SERRS likely originates not from the non-native 5-coordinated heme, which is in the high spin state.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University, Sanda, Hyogo 669-1337, Japan. kitahama@kwansei.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Yasutaka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kitahama
authors.forename: Masatoshi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Egashira
authors.forename: Toshiaki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: Ichiro
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Tanabe
authors.forename: Yukihiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ozaki
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006418:Heme / Q000032:analysis*; D008786:Metmyoglobin / Q000737:chemistry*; D013059:Spectrum Analysis, Raman / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D008786:Metmyoglobin; D006418:Heme