Primary Citation of Related Structures: 1ABW, 1ABY
PubMed Abstract:
. Potential blood substitutes can be based on hemoglobin. Two problems must be overcome with acellular hemoglobin-based blood substitutes, however: the oxygen affinity of purified human hemoglobin is too high for it to deliver oxygen to tissues, and hemoglobin tetramers dissociate into alphabeta dimers that can cause kidney damage ...
. Potential blood substitutes can be based on hemoglobin. Two problems must be overcome with acellular hemoglobin-based blood substitutes, however: the oxygen affinity of purified human hemoglobin is too high for it to deliver oxygen to tissues, and hemoglobin tetramers dissociate into alphabeta dimers that can cause kidney damage. A modified form of hemoglobin, rHb 1.1, has reduced oxygen affinity as the result of an Asnbeta 108-->Lys mutation, and dimerization is prevented by the insertion of a glycine residue between the sequences of the normal alpha chains to produce one covalently continuous di-alpha-chain. Determination of the structure of rHb 1.1 would provide structure-based explanations for the altered properties of rHb 1.1.
Related Citations:
A Human Recombinant Haemoglobin Designed for Use as a Blood Substitute Looker, D., Abbott-Brown, D., Cozart, P., Durfee, S., Hoffman, S., Mathews, A.J., Miller-Roehrich, J., Shoemaker, S., Trimble, S., Fermi, G., Komiyama, N.H., Nagai, K., Stetler, G.L. (1992) Nature 356: 258
Organizational Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0215, USA.
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