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Engineered proteins: A carbon monoxide antidote

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A re-engineered haemoglobin-like protein protects mice poisoned with the lethal gas carbon monoxide.

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Figure 1: Structure of the wild-type (left) and engineered neuroglobin (H64Q; centre), with bound CO (right).

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  1. and the Department of Anaesthesiology, Lindell K. Weaver is at the Intermountain Medical Center, Murray, Utah 84107-7000, USA, LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah 84143, USA, the University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah 84132, USA, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA.,

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