Structures of a hemoglobin-based blood substitute: insights into the function of allosteric proteins.
Kroeger, K.S., Kundrot, C.E.(1997) Structure 5: 227-237
- PubMed: 9032082 
- DOI: 10.1016/s0969-2126(97)00181-0
- 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 ...