[PDF][PDF] Intermolecular interactions, nucleation, and thermodynamics of crystallization of hemoglobin C

PG Vekilov, AR Feeling-Taylor, DN Petsev, O Galkin… - Biophysical journal, 2002 - cell.com
The mutated hemoglobin HbC (β6 Glu→ Lys), in the oxygenated (R) liganded state, forms
crystals inside red blood cells of patients with CC and SC diseases. Static and dynamic light …

[PDF][PDF] Crystallization mechanisms of hemoglobin C in the R state

AR Feeling-Taylor, ST Yau, DN Petsev, RL Nagel… - Biophysical journal, 2004 - cell.com
Crystallization of the mutated hemoglobin, HbC, which occurs inside red blood cells of
patients expressing β C-globin and exhibiting the homozygous CC and the heterozygous …

Structure of deoxy hemoglobin C (beta six Glu→ Lys) in two crystal forms

PMD Fitzgerald, WE Love - Journal of molecular biology, 1979 - Elsevier
Five crystal forms of the abnormal human hemoglobin Hb‡ C (beta six Glu→ Lys) have been
grown. Two of them are grown with liganded Hb C, three with deoxy Hb C. The structures of …

Acceleration of hemoglobin C crystallization by hemoglobin S

MJ Lin, RL Nagel, RE Hirsch - 1989 - ashpublications.org
We previously reported that circulating hemoglobin (Hb) CC erythrocytes contain
oxygenated HbC crystals with little or no HbF and that HbF inhibits in vitro crystallization of …

The Enigma of the Liganded Hemoglobin End State:  A Novel Quaternary Structure of Human Carbonmonoxy Hemoglobin,

MK Safo, DJ Abraham - Biochemistry, 2005 - ACS Publications
The liganded hemoglobin (Hb) high-salt crystallization condition described by Max Perutz
has generated three different crystals of human adult carbonmonoxy hemoglobin (COHbA) …

Solution-active structural alterations in liganded hemoglobins C (β6 Glu→ Lys) and S (β6 Glu→ Val)

RE Hirsch, LJ Juszczak, NA Fataliev… - Journal of Biological …, 1999 - ASBMB
Based upon existing crystallographic evidence, HbS, HbC, and HbA have essentially the
same molecular structure. However, important areas of the molecule are not well defined …

Conformational Changes in Oxyhemoglobin C (Gluβ6→ Lys) Detected by Spectroscopic Probing (∗)

RE Hirsch, MJ Lin, GVA Vidugirus, S Huang… - Journal of Biological …, 1996 - ASBMB
Hemoglobin C (Glu β6→ Lys) shares with hemoglobin S (Glu β6→ Val) the site of mutation,
but with different consequences: deoxyHbS forms polymers, whereas oxyHbC readily forms …

Crystal structure of carbonmonoxy sickle hemoglobin in R-state conformation

MS Ghatge, MH Ahmed, ASM Omar, PP Pagare… - Journal of structural …, 2016 - Elsevier
The fundamental pathophysiology of sickle cell disease is predicated by the polymerization
of deoxygenated (T-state) sickle hemoglobin (Hb S) into fibers that distort red blood cells into …

Structures and oxygen affinities of crystalline human hemoglobin C (β6 Glu→ Lys) in the R and R2 quaternary structures

N Shibayama, K Sugiyama, SY Park - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2011 - ASBMB
Recent crystallographic studies suggested that fully liganded human hemoglobin can adopt
multiple quaternary conformations that include the two previously solved relaxed …

[PDF][PDF] Liquid-liquid phase separation in hemoglobins: distinct aggregation mechanisms of the β6 mutants

Q Chen, PG Vekilov, RL Nagel, RE Hirsch - Biophysical journal, 2004 - cell.com
Reversible liquid-liquid (LL) phase separation in the form of high concentration hemoglobin
(Hb) solution droplets is favored in an equilibrium with a low-concentration Hb solution when …