Oxygen binding and aggregation of hemoglobin from the common European frog, Rana temporaria

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 225-231

  Bårdgard, Astrid ^a,b   Fago, Angela ^b   Malte, Hans ^b   Weber, Roy E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Allosteric interaction; ATP; Bohr effect; Chloride; Cooperativity; Frog hemoglobin; Oxygen affinity; Oxygen binding; Polymerisation

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CHLORIDE; DISULFIDE; HEMOGLOBIN; OXYGEN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; FROG; HEMOLYSATE; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; MODEL; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN AFFINITY; OXYGENATION; PH; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; RANA TEMPORARIA;

EID: 0030805083     PISSN: 03050491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0491(97)00094-1     Document Type: Article

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