Testing the two-state model: anomalous effector binding to human hemoglobin

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Three allosteric states are required to describe the relaxation of (carbon monoxy)hemoglobin following flash photolysis. Combined absorbance and fluorescence probes were used. The absorbance signals consist of a component corresponding to ligand recombination and a component for the R-T transition. The fluorescence of 8-hydroxy-1,3,6-pyrenetrisulfonate (HPT), an analogue of 2,3-diphosphoglycerate, shows rates and amplitudes correlated with the absorbance transients. Measurements were made at pH 6, 6.5, and 7.0 at CO partial pressures of 0.1 and 1 atm. The fractional photolysis was varied in each case to change the initial distribution of the R states. Data show an immediate absorbance change due to ligand dissociation, while the changes in the ligand isosbestic and the fluorescence signals occur with time constants of 80 .mu.s (at pH 6.5). The signals then show a biphasic return to equilibrium, characteristic of the allosteroid system. The measurements provide three independent probes of the kinetics of the substates of hemoglobin. Although the ligand binding data can be generally represented by a two-state model, the fluorescence data require T stages with different affinities for HPT.

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