Ionization properties of titratable groups in ribonuclease T1

Abstract. The experimental NMR data for the individual titratable groups in ribonuclease T1 presented in the preceding paper were analysed by means of a continuum dielectric model. The role of two factors, the alteration of hydrogen loci on the ionizable groups and the conformational flexibility, were analysed. It was suggested that the position of the titratable hydrogen is essential mainly for strongly interacting groups. For groups which are accessible to the solvent and whose ionization is not coupled with the ionization of neighbouring groups, this factor can be neglected. The influence of the conformational flexibility on the electrostatic interactions becomes apparent for the environment of K25. For some strongly interacting groups, non-sigmoidal ionization curves were calculated. On this basis the pH dependence of the NMR chemical shift of the 13Cε2 resonance of H27, whose ionization is coupled with E82, was reproduced.

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