The haemoglobin enzyme

Kiyohiro Imai ()
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Kiyohiro Imai: Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine

Nature, 1999, vol. 401, issue 6752, 437-439

Abstract: aemoglobin is well known for its function is delivering oxygen from lungs or gills to tissues. But the startling results of a study into the haemoglobin from a parasitic nematode called Ascaris show that haemoglobin can also eliminate oxygen. Ascaris lives in an anaerobic environment where oxygen is toxic, so its haemoglobin, which has an especially high affinity for oxygen, acts as a nitric-oxide activated deoxygenase.

Date: 1999
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