Unusual structure of the oxygen-binding site in the dimeric bacterial hemoglobin from Vitreoscilla sp.

Structure

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 497-507

  Tarricone, Cataldo ^a,b   Galizzi, Alessandro ^a   Coda, Alessandro ^a   Ascenzi, Paolo ^c   Bolognesi, Martino ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

bacterial hemoglobin; nonvertebrate globin structure; oxygen binding heme domains; Vitreoscilla sp. hemoglobin

Indexed keywords

ALCALIGENES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; VITREOSCILLA SP.; VITREOSCILLA STERCORARIA; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA;

EID: 0031569849     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(97)00206-2     Document Type: Article

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