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The quantum mechanically mixed-spin state in a non-symbiotic plant hemoglobin: the effect of distal mutation on AHb1 from Arabidopsis thaliana.
Journal of inorganic biochemistry - 1 Nov 2007
Droghetti Enrica, Howes Barry D, Feis Alessandro, Dominici Paola, Fittipaldi Maria, Smulevich Giulietta
Abstract excerpt
Non-symbiotic hemoglobins are hexacoordinated heme proteins found in all plants. To gain insight into the importance of the heme hexacoordination and the coordinated distal histidine in general for the possible physiological functions of these proteins, the distal His(E7) of Arabidopsis thaliana hemoglobin (AHb1) was substituted by a leucine residue. The heme properties of the wild-type and mutant proteins have...
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