Dioxygen Binding and Sensing Proteins (eBook)

Introduction: A Dedication to Beatrice and Jonathan Wittenberg.- Reflections on Beatrice and Jonathan Wittenberg.- The Wittenbergs: A Personal Appreciation.- A Crystallographer’s Perspective on the 2/2Hb Family.- The Phylogeny and Structural Properties of 2/2 Haemoglobins.- Reexamining Data from the Past Related to the Evolution of the Functional Properties of the Haemoglobins of the Teleost Fish.- Evolutionary Physiology of Oxygen Secretion in the Eye of Fishes of the Suborder Notothenioidei.- Mutagenic Studies on the Origins of the Root Effect.- Redox Reactions of Cross-linked Haemoglobins with Oxygen and Nitrite.- Bis-histidyl Ferric Adducts in Tetrameric Haemoglobins.- Cooperativity and Ligand-linked Polymerisation in Scapharca Tetrameric Haemoglobin.- Human Serum Haeme-albumin: An Allosteric ‘Chronosteric’ Protein.- T- and R-state Tertiary Relaxations in Sol-gel Encapsulated Haemoglobin.- From O2 Diffusion into Red Blood Cells to Ligand Pathways in Globins.- Myoglobin Strikes Back.- The Bilatarian Sea Urchin and the Radial Starlet Sea Anemone Globins Share Strong Homologies with Vertebrate Neuroglobins.- Whale Rider: The Co-occurrence of Haemoglobin and Haemocyanin in Cyamus scammoni.- Neuroglobin and Other Nerve Haemoglobins.- Ever Surprising Nematode Globins.- Microbial Haemoglobins: Proteins at the Crossroads of Oxygen and Nitric Oxide Metabolism.