Is cooperative oxygen binding by hemoglobin really understood?

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 351-358

  Eaton, William A ^a   Henry, Eric R ^a   Hofrichter, James ^a   Mozzarelli, Andrea ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; OXYGEN;

ALLOSTERISM; BOHR EFFECT; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; KINETICS; LIGAND BINDING; OXYGEN AFFINITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; HEMOGLOBINS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MUTATION; OXYGEN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 0032921026     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/7586     Document Type: Review

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