Abstract
HAEMOGLOBIN derives its ability to bind oxygen reversibly from the particular type of bond formed between the haem-iron and molecular oxygen. So far X-ray crystallography1 has not resolved conclusively the structure of this bond.
Article PDF
References
Watson, H. C., and Nobbs, C. L., in Nineteenth Coll. Ges. Biol. Chemi, Mosbach (edit. by Hess, B., and Staudinger, Hj.), 37 (Springer, Berlin, 1968).
Maričić, S., Leigh, J. S., and Sunko, D. E., Nature, 214, 462 (1967).
Griffith, J. S., Proc. Roy. Soc, A, 235, 23 (1956).
Pifat, G., Maričić, S., Petrinovic, M., Kramer, V., Marcel, J., and Bonhard, K., Croat. Chem. Acta, 41, 195 (1969).
Drabkin, D. L., J. Biol. Chem., 164, 703 (1946).
Kohn, J., Nature, 183, 1055 (1959).
Benesch, R., Benesch, R. E., and Macduff, G., Science, 144, 68 (1964).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
IRVING, C., LAPIDOT, A. Haemoglobin-17O2 Revisited. Nature New Biology 230, 224 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/newbio230224a0
Received:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/newbio230224a0