Microbial hemoglobins. structure, function, and folding

The Smallest Biomolecules: Diatomics and their Interactions with Heme Proteins

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 235-266

  Lu, Changyuan ^a   Egawa, Tsuyoshi ^a   Batabyal, Dipanwita ^a   Mukai, Masahiro ^b   Yeh, Syun Ru ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MITSUBISHI KAGAKU INSTITUTE OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-044452839-1.50011-5     Document Type: Chapter

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