Conservation of the conformation of the porphyrin macrocycle in hemoproteins
Jentzen W;Ma JG;Shelnutt JA;;
Biophysical journal1998Vol. 74pp. -
228
w1998biophysicalconservation
Abstract
The out-of-plane distortions of porphyrins in hemoproteins are characterized by displacements along the lowest-frequency out-of-plane normal coordinates of the D4h-symmetric macrocycle. X-ray crystal structures are analyzed using a computational procedure developed for determining these orthogonal d …