Publisher's Synopsis
Oxygen binding proteins are large multi-unit proteins ideally suited to the study of structure function relationships in biological molecules. This book, based on a Symposium at the 10th International Biophysics Congress in 1990, provides a synthesis of recent advances in our knowledge of invertebrate oxygen carriers such as haemoglobins, haemocyanins and haemorythrins. Reviews of these are combined with new research results of interest to biochemists and molecular biologists concerned with oxygen carriers in general, their gene structure and comparative biochemistry. Of particular value are the studies of invertebrate oxygen binding proteins which perform their function and have structures vastly different from the vertebrate haemoglobins and myoglobins, as well as examples of modern molecular techniques.;This book of proceedings on comparative physiology, biochemistry and physical biochemistry is intended for libraries and researchers.
