Title |
Molluscan mega-hemocyanin: an ancient oxygen carrier tuned by a ~550 kDa polypeptide
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Published in |
Frontiers in Zoology, May 2010
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DOI | 10.1186/1742-9994-7-14 |
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Authors |
Bernhard Lieb, Wolfgang Gebauer, Christos Gatsogiannis, Frank Depoix, Nadja Hellmann, Myroslaw G Harasewych, Ellen E Strong, Jürgen Markl |
Abstract |
The allosteric respiratory protein hemocyanin occurs in gastropods as tubular di-, tri- and multimers of a 35 x 18 nm, ring-like decamer with a collar complex at one opening. The decamer comprises five subunit dimers. The subunit, a 400 kDa polypeptide, is a concatenation of eight paralogous functional units. Their exact topology within the quaternary structure has recently been solved by 3D electron microscopy, providing a molecular model of an entire didecamer (two conjoined decamers). Here we study keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH2) tridecamers to unravel the exact association mode of the third decamer. Moreover, we introduce and describe a more complex type of hemocyanin tridecamer discovered in fresh/brackish-water cerithioid snails (Leptoxis, Melanoides, Terebralia). |
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