The enigmatic oxygen-avid hemoglobin of
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Daniel E. Goldberg
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Article
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1995
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract The parasitic nematode __Ascaris__ lives in the lowβoxygen intestinal folds of over one billion people worldβwwide. The worm has an octameric hemoglobin that binds oxygen four orders of magnitude more tightly than does human hemogobin. Our studies have focused on elucidating the molecul