Origin and mechanism of thermal insensitivity in mole hemoglobins: A test of the 'additional' chloride binding site hypothesis

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 215, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 518-525

  Signore, Anthony V ^a   Stetefeld, Jörg ^a   Weber, Roy E ^b   Campbell, Kevin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Enthalpy; Hemoglobin; Molecular evolution; Oxygen binding; Shrew mole; Star nosed mole; Talpidae; Temperature effect

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE; HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; OXYGEN; PROTON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BLOOD; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; METABOLISM; MOLE (INSECTIVORA); MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHLORIDES; GAMMA-GLOBULINS; HEMOGLOBINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLES; OXYGEN; PROTONS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CONDYLURA; CONDYLURA CRISTATA; MAMMALIA; NEUROTRICHUS; NEUROTRICHUS GIBBSII; SCALOPUS; SCALOPUS AQUATICUS; SCAPANUS ORARIUS; TALPIDAE;

EID: 84856597915     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.063669     Document Type: Article

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