Crystal structure of T state haemoglobin with oxygen bound at all four haems

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 256, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 775-792

  Paoli, Massimo ^a   Liddington, Robert ^b   Tame, Jeremy ^a   Wilkinson, Anthony ^a   Dodson, Guy ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cooperativity; Crystallography; Haemoglobin; Oxygenation; T state

Indexed keywords

HEME; HEMOGLOBIN; OXYGEN; OXYHEMOGLOBIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030000410     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0124     Document Type: Article

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