Allosteric regulation and temperature dependence of oxygen binding in human neuroglobin and cytoglobin. Molecular mechanisms and physiological significance.

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Two new globin proteins have recently been discovered in vertebrates, neuroglobin in neurons and cytoglobin in all tissues, both showing heme hexacoordination by the distal His(E7) in the absence of gaseous ligands. In analogy to hemoglobin and myoglobin, neuroglobin and cytoglobin are supposedly involved in O2 storage and delivery, although their physiological role remains to be solved. Here we report O2...

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