Multiple hemoglobins in the electric ray: Torpedo marmorata

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 645-651

  Galderisi, Umberto ^a,b   Fucci, Laura ^a   Geraci, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

chromatography; elasmobranch; electrophoresis; eterotetramer; globin; hemoglobin; hybrid molecules; multiplicity; polymerization; post translational modification

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; TORPEDO MARMORATA;

EID: 0029916816     PISSN: 03050491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0305-0491(95)02012-8     Document Type: Article

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