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 …

The investigation of respiratory N-oxide reduction as part of a biogeochemical process
sustained by prokaryotes has roots over a century ago and has laid the groundwork for …

Microbial flavohemoglobins (flavoHbs) and hemoglobins (Hbs) show large NO
dioxygenation rate constants ranging from 745 to 2900 μM− 1s− 1 suggesting a primal NO …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of human tuberculosis, and Mycobacterium
bovis each express two genes, glbN and glbO, encoding distantly related truncated …

In response to oxygen limitation or oxidative and nitrosative stress, bacteria express three
kinds of hemoglobin proteins: truncated hemoglobins (tr Hbs), hemoglobins (Hbs) and …

This book explores gene sharing—a term originally coined to describe the observation that
structural proteins (called crystallins) responsible for the transparent and refractive …

Macrophage‐generated oxygen‐and nitrogen‐reactive species control the development of
Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in the host. Mycobacterium tuberculosis 'truncated …

We have previously reported that bacterial flavohemoglobin (HMP) catalyzes both a rapid
reaction of heme-bound O2 with nitric oxide (NO) to form nitrate [HMP-Fe (II) O2+ NO→ HMP …

Nitric oxide (NO) is an inevitable product of life in an oxygen-and nitrogen-rich environment.
This reactive diatomic molecule exhibits microbial cytotoxicity, in large part by facilitating …

Distantly related members of the hemoglobin (Hb) superfamily including red blood cell Hb,
muscle myoglobin (Mb) and the microbial flavohemoglobin (flavoHb) dioxygenate nitric …