Microscopic model of carbon monoxide binding to myoglobin

We present a microscopic model of carbon monoxide (CO) binding to myoglobin which reproduces the experimentally observed Arrhenius pre-exponential factor of 109 s−1 and activation enthalpy distribution centered at 12 kJ/mol. The model is based on extensive ab initio calculations of CO interacting with a model heme-imidazole group which we performed using a fully quantum mechanical Hartree–Fock/density functional theory (HF/DFT) hybrid method. We fit the HF/DFT calculated energies, obtained for over 1000 heme-CO structures with varied CO and iron positions and orientations for both high (S=2) and low (S=0) spin states, to a model potential function which includes a bonding interaction in both of the spin states, electrostatic, and anisotropic Lennard-Jones-type interactions. By combining the x-ray determined protein structure with this potential and protein-CO interactions and internal heme interaction potentials obtained from established molecular dynamics literature, we calculate the energy required for ...

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