Crystal structure of Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) cyano-metmyoglobin at 1.78-A resolution. Phe29(B10) accounts for its unusual ligand binding properties.
Bisig, D.A., Di Iorio, E.E., Diederichs, K., Winterhalter, K.H., Piontek, K.(1995) J Biol Chem 270: 20754-20762
- PubMed: 7657658 
- DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.35.20754
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1EMY - PubMed Abstract: 
The crystal structure of Asian elephant cyano-metmyoglobin which has a glutamine instead of the usual distal site histidine has been determined to high resolution. In addition to this replacement, the substitution of a conserved leucine residue in position 29(B10) at the distal side by a phenylalanine was unambiguously identified based on the available electron density ...