Structure and function of haemoglobins

DA Gell - Blood Cells, Molecules, and Diseases, 2018 - Elsevier
Haemoglobin (Hb) is widely known as the iron-containing protein in blood that is essential
for O 2 transport in mammals. Less widely recognised is that erythrocyte Hb belongs to a …

From hemoglobin allostery to hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers

S Faggiano, L Ronda, S Bruno, S Abbruzzetti… - Molecular Aspects of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Hemoglobin (Hb) plays its vital role through structural and functional properties
evolutionarily optimized to work within red blood cells, ie, the tetrameric assembly, well …

A tertiary two-state allosteric model for hemoglobin

ER Henry, S Bettati, J Hofrichter, WA Eaton - Biophysical chemistry, 2002 - Elsevier
The two-state allosteric model of Monod, Wyman, and Changeux (MWC) provides an
excellent description of homotropic effects in a vast array of equilibrium and kinetic …

Evolution of allosteric models for hemoglobin

WA Eaton, ER Henry, J Hofrichter, S Bettati… - IUBMB …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
We compare various allosteric models that have been proposed to explain cooperative
oxygen binding to hemoglobin, including the two‐state allosteric model of Monod, Wyman …

New insights into allosteric mechanisms from trap** unstable protein conformations in silica gels

C Viappiani, S Bettati, S Bruno… - Proceedings of the …, 2004 - National Acad Sciences
To understand why the classical two-state allosteric model of Monod, Wyman, and
Changeux explains cooperative oxygen binding by hemoglobin but does not explain …

Exploring and exploiting allostery: Models, evolution, and drug targeting

A Peracchi, A Mozzarelli - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Proteins …, 2011 - Elsevier
The concept of allostery was elaborated almost 50years ago by Monod and coworkers to
provide a framework for interpreting experimental studies on the regulation of protein …

Experimental basis for a new allosteric model for multisubunit proteins

C Viappiani, S Abbruzzetti, L Ronda… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Monod, Wyman, and Changeux (MWC) explained allostery in multisubunit proteins with a
widely applied theoretical model in which binding of small molecules, so-called allosteric …

Structural basis of sequential and concerted cooperativity

V Morea, F Angelucci, JRH Tame, E Di Cera, A Bellelli - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Allostery is a property of biological macromolecules featuring cooperative ligand binding
and regulation of ligand affinity by effectors. The definition was introduced by Monod and …

Allosteric transitions in hemoglobin revisited

N Shibayama - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-General Subjects, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Human hemoglobin is an allosteric protein that exerts exquisite control over
ligand binding through large-scale conformational changes. The two-state model without …

Spontaneous quaternary and tertiary TR transitions of human hemoglobin in molecular dynamics simulation

JS Hub, MB Kubitzki, BL de Groot - PLoS computational biology, 2010 - journals.plos.org
We present molecular dynamics simulations of unliganded human hemoglobin (Hb) A under
physiological conditions, starting from the R, R2, and T state. The simulations were carried …