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Origin of complexity in haemoglobin evolution

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Most proteins associate into multimeric complexes with specific architectures1,2, which often have functional properties such as cooperative ligand binding or allosteric regulation3. No detailed knowledge is available about how any multimer and its functions arose during evolution. Here we use ancestral protein reconstruction and biophysical assays to elucidate the origins of vertebrate haemoglobin, a heterotetramer of paralogous α- and β-subunits that mediates respiratory oxygen transport an...

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10.1038/s41586-020-2292-y

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0000-0002-0664-0864
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Host title:
Nature
Volume:
581
Issue:
7809
Pages:
480-485
Publication date:
2020-05-20
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1476-4687
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0028-0836
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English
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1088032
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pubs:1088032
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2020-06-25

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