Ligand migration and binding in the dimeric hemoglobin of Scapharca inaequivalvis

Biochemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 49, 2007, Pages 14018-14031

  Nienhaus, Karin ^a   Knapp, James E ^b,d   Palladino, Pasquale ^a   Royer Jr , William E ^b   Nienhaus, G Ulrich ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^d University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYOGENICS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIGANDS; PHOTODISSOCIATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

DIMERIC HEMOGLOBIN; DOCKING SITES; PHYSIOLOGICAL BINDING; SCAPHARCA INAEQUIVALVIS;

HEMOGLOBIN;

HEMOGLOBIN; HISTIDINE; OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; DISSOCIATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SCAPHARCA; SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CARBON MONOXIDE; CARBOXYHEMOGLOBIN; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DIMERIZATION; HEMOGLOBINS; LIGANDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; SCAPHARCA; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED;

SCAPHARCA INAEQUIVALVIS;

EID: 37149055029     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi7016798     Document Type: Article

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