Observación directa de la dinámica estructural de las proteínas cooperativas de la hemoglobina homodimérica desde 100

Kyung Hwan Kim1, Srinivasan Muniyappan, Key Young Oang

  • 1Center for Time-Resolved Diffraction, Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Nanoscience & Technology (WCU), KAIST, Daejeon, 305-701, Republic of Korea.

Resumen

Este estudio revela la dinámica estructural de las proteínas en tiempo real utilizando dispersión de solución de rayos X, identificando tres intermedios en las transiciones de la hemoglobina. La unión de ligandos en una subunidad refleja el efecto de la unión en ambas, ofreciendo nuevos conocimientos sobre la función de la proteína.

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