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R L BERGER

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PubMed1963

THE REACTIONS OF HEMOGLOBIN IN VARIOUS MEDIA.

The rate constants for the association of oxygen and of carbon monoxide with reduced hemoglobin and for the dissociation of oxygen from hemoglobin were studied in a variety of media. All three of these rates were essentially independent of diffusion rate and dielectric constant throughout a wide range. These results are very different from those found for other heme proteins whose rates are diffusion-controlled in very viscous solvents.The interpretation of the average measured rates described herein in terms of the four rate constants discussed by Gibson and Roughton indicates that our measurements reflect most strongly the constants for the first reacting molecule in each case. For the purposes of these reactions, the reactants may be regarded as neutral molecules.

Biochemical Phenomena↗
PubMed1963

REACTION OF OXYHEMOGLOBIN WITH CARBON MONOXIDE.

The reaction of oxyhemoglobin and carbon monoxide was studied kinetically at pH 7.8 in a variety of suspending media. The dielectric constant of the suspending media, as well as the viscosity (and hence the Fick diffusion coefficients), was varied with the use of glycine, glycerol, and sucrose. The results showed that the reaction was unaltered by the various additions to the media, provided that the pO(2) and the concentration of carbon monoxide were held constant. Since the concentration of oxygen varies from medium to medium at constant pO(2) while the pCO varies at constant concentration of carbon monoxide, the differences in the reactions with oxygen and carbon monoxide were emphasized. The lack of variation of the rate constants with changes in dielectric constant can be interpreted as indicating that electrostatic effects are unimportant in this reaction.

Biochemical Phenomena↗