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Band 3 catalyzes sickle hemoglobin polymerization.
Biophysical chemistry - 1 Feb 2010
Rotter Maria A, Chu Haiyan, Low Philip S, Ferrone Frank A
Abstract excerpt
We have measured homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation rates of sickle hemoglobin (HbS) in the presence of a strongly binding deletion mutant of the cytoplasmic domain of band 3 (cdb3), a membrane protein known to form dimers and to bind 2 HbS molecules to such a dimer, and we find that it accelerated both rates by a factor of 2. A weakly binding mutant, in contrast showed no impact on nucleation rates,...
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