Structural and functional properties of
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Abir U. Igamberdiev; Natalia V. Bykova; Robert D. Hill
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Article
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2011
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Nonsymbiotic class 1 plant hemoglobins are induced under hypoxia. Structurally they are protein dimers consisting of two identical subunits, each containing heme iron in a weak hexacoordinate state. The weak hexacoordination of hemeβiron binding to the distal histidine results in an ext