Cooperativity and allostery in haemoglobin function

IUBMB Life

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 112-123

  Ciaccio, Chiara ^a,b   Coletta, Andrea ^a   De Sanctis, Giampiero ^c   Marini, Stefano ^a   Coletta, Massimo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b Interuniversity Consortium for the Res on the Chemistry of Metals in Biological Systems (CIRCMSB)   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cooperativity and allostery; Haemoglobin; Heterotropic interactions; Homotropic interactions; Ligand binding; Thermodynamic models

Indexed keywords

HEME; HEMOGLOBIN; LIGAND; OXYGEN;

ALLOSTERISM; BINDING SITE; HUMAN; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; BINDING SITES; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; LIGANDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; OXYGEN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 42149173254     PISSN: 15216543     EISSN: 15216551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/iub.6     Document Type: Review

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