Science is not a quiet life : unravelling the atomic mechanism of haemoglobin
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Science is not a quiet life : unravelling the atomic mechanism of haemoglobin
Imperial College Press , World Scientific, c1997
- : hard
- : pbk
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: hard ISBN 9789810227746
Description
Linus Pauling called haemoglobin the most interesting and important of molecules. This important volume shows how X-ray crystallography was used to determine its bewilderingly complex atomic structure and to unravel the stereochemical mechanisms of its respiratory functions. It introduces isomorphous replacement with heavy atoms which led to the first protein structures, haemoglobin and its simpler relative myoglobin. Later papers deal with the stereochemistry of the cooperative effects of haemoglobin, with the relationships between the structures and impaired functions of abnormal haemoglobin, with species adaptation of haemoglobin, and with its action as a drug receptor and as an oxygen sensor. The final papers deal with amino acid repeats which act as polar zippers and their role in certain inherited neurodegenerative diseases.
Table of Contents
- Early studies
- the phase problem
- from the first molecular model to the allosteric mechanism
- the haemoglobin wars
- molecular pathology of human haemoglobin
- haemoglobin as a drug receptor
- species adaptations in haemoglobin
- early shots at the folding problem and factors contributing to protein stability
- polar zippers and human disease
- haemoglobin as an oxygen sensor that regulates expression of nitrogenase genes.
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9789810230579
Description
Linus Pauling called haemoglobin the most interesting and important of molecules. This important volume shows how X-ray crystallography was used to determine its bewilderingly complex atomic structure and to unravel the stereochemical mechanisms of its respiratory functions. It introduces isomorphous replacement with heavy atoms which led to the first protein structures, haemoglobin and its simpler relative myoglobin. Later papers deal with the stereochemistry of the cooperative effects of haemoglobin, with the relationships between the structures and impaired functions of abnormal haemoglobin, with species adaptation of haemoglobin, and with its action as a drug receptor and as an oxygen sensor. The final papers deal with amino acid repeats which act as polar zippers and their role in certain inherited neurodegenerative diseases.
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