We have investigate
d the question of how CO ligan
ds bin
d to ironin metalloporphyrins an
dmetalloproteins by using a combination of nuclear magnetic resonance(NMR),
57Fe M&
ouml;ssbauer, an
d infrare
dspectroscopic techniques, combine
d with
density functional theoreticalcalculations to analyze the spectroscopicresults. The results of
13C NMR isotropic chemicalshift,
13C NMR chemical shift anisotropy,
17ONMRisotropic chemical shift,
17O nuclear qua
drupole couplingconstant,
57Fe NMR isotropic chemical shift,
57FeM&
ouml;ssbauer qua
drupolar splitting, an
d infrare
d measurementsin
dicate that CO bin
ds to Fe in a close to linearfashion in all conformational substates. The
13C-isotropic shift an
d shift anisotropy for anA
o substate mo
delcompoun
d:Fe(5,10,15,20-tetraphenylporphyrin)(CO)(
N-methylimi
dazole),as well as the
17O chemical shift,an
d the
17O nuclear qua
drupole coupling constant (NQCC) arevirtually the same as those foun
d in the A
osubstate of
Physeter catodon CO myoglobin an
d lea
d to mostprobable ligan
d tilt (
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) an
d ben
d (
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ddle">) angles of0
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d 1
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deg.gif"> when using a Bayesian probability or
Z surfacemetho
d for structure
determination. The infrare
d
CO for the mo
del compoun
d of 1969cm
-1 is also that foun
d for A
oproteins. Results for the A
1 substate(inclu
ding the
57Fe NMR chemical shift an
dM&
ouml;ssbauer qua
drupole splitting) are also consistent with closetolinear an
d untilte
d Fe-C-O geometries (
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= 4
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ddle"> = 7
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deg.gif">),with the small changes in ligan
d spectroscopicparameters being attribute
d to electrostatic fiel
d effects. Whentaken together, the
13C shift,
13C shiftanisotropy,
17O shift,
17O NQCC,
57Feshift,
57Fe M&
ouml;ssbauer qua
drupole splitting, an
d
CO all strongly in
dicate very closeto linear an
d untilte
d Fe-C-O geometries for all carbonmonoxyhemeproteins. These results represent thefirst
detaile
d quantum chemical analysis of metal-ligan
d geometriesin metalloproteins using up to seven
different spectroscopic observables from three types of spectroscopyan
d suggest a generalize
d approach tostructure
determination.