Structure of leghaemoglobin from lupin root nodules at 5 Å resolution
Abstract
THE similarity in tertiary structure of mammalian haemoglobins1-3 and myoglobins4,5 and of haemoglobins from invertebrates6,7 shown by X-ray analysis has been particularly important for our understanding of the biological evolution of these proteins. We have therefore studied the structure of leghaemoglobins-plant haemoglobins found in root nodules of leguminous plants-and compared the structures of seemingly unrelated, in terms of evolution, haemoglobins.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- March 1975
- DOI:
- 10.1038/254163a0
- Bibcode:
- 1975Natur.254..163V