Article
Structure of the fibers of hemoglobin S.
Texas reports on biology and medicine - 1 Jan 2000
Edelstein S J
Abstract excerpt
Several lines of evidence are converging on a consistent model for the structure of the fibers of hemoglobin S. The basic structure of the fibers is a solid helical assembly of 14 protofilaments deduced from three-dimensional reconstructions of electron micrographs. The filaments are organized in...
Topics
- Chemical Phenomena
- Chemistry
- Crystallization
- Erythrocytes, Abnormal
- Hemoglobin, Sickle
- Humans
- Molecular Conformation
- Mutation
- X-Ray Diffraction