A novel two-over-two α-helical sandwich fold is characteristic of the truncated hemoglobin family

EMBO Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 2424-2434

  Pesce, Alessandra ^a   Couture, Manon ^e   Dewilde, Sylvia ^c   Guertin, Michel ^f   Yamauchi, Kiyoshi ^d   Ascenzi, Paolo ^a,b   Moens, Luc ^c   Bolognesi, Martino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f NONE

Author keywords

Chloroplast hemoglobin; Globin fold evolution; Helical fold; Hemoglobins; Paramecium hemoglobin

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE; HEME; HEMOGLOBIN;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARAMECIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HEME; HEMEPROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VERTEBRATES; WHALES;

EID: 0034213366     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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