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ヘムタンパク質の酸素相性調節は近接効果によって作用する

Luciana Capece1, Marcelo A Marti, Alejandro Crespo

  • 1Departamento de Química Inorganica, Analítica y Química Física/INQUIMAE-CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Journal of the American Chemical Society
|September 21, 2006
PubMed
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この研究は,ヘムタンパク質の近接ヒスティジンが,酸素の親和性をどのように調節するかを明らかにしています. コンピュータ・シミュレーションでは,電荷の寄与,回転,距離が,タンパク質の機能に不可欠な酸素結合強度に合わせて調整されていることが示されています.

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