Article
The structure of greylag goose oxy haemoglobin: the roles of four mutations compared with bar-headed goose haemoglobin.
Acta crystallographica. Section D, Biological crystallography - 1 Dec 2001
Liang Y H, Liu X Z, Liu S H, Lu G Y
Abstract excerpt
The greylag goose (Anser anser), which lives on lowlands and cannot tolerate hypoxic conditions, presents a striking contrast to its close relative the bar-headed goose (A. indicus), which lives at high altitude and possesses high-altitude hypoxia adaptation. There are only four amino-acid residue differences at alpha18, alpha63, alpha119 and beta125 between the haemoglobins of the two species. The crystal...
Topics
- Animals
- Crystallization
- Crystallography, X-Ray
- Geese
- Heme
- Inositol Phosphates
- Models, Molecular
- Mutation
- Oxyhemoglobins
- Protein Conformation
- Quality Control