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Molluscan mega-hemocyanin: an ancient oxygen carrier tuned by a ~550 kDa polypeptide

BACKGROUND: The allosteric respiratory protein hemocyanin occurs in gastropods as tubular di-, tri- and multimers of a 35 × 18 nm, ring-like decamer with a collar complex at one opening. The decamer comprises five subunit dimers. The subunit, a 400 kDa polypeptide, is a concatenation of eight paralo...

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Autores principales: Lieb, Bernhard, Gebauer, Wolfgang, Gatsogiannis, Christos, Depoix, Frank, Hellmann, Nadja, Harasewych, Myroslaw G, Strong, Ellen E, Markl, Jürgen
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2881123/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20465844
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-7-14