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Extracellular hemoglobins(Hb) from annelids have been known to show no heterotropic interaction with the organic phosphate, such as 2,3-diphosphoglycerate. In an attempt to investigate allosteric effectors of annelid Hb, we estimated the oxygen equilibrium of Eisenia Hb and found that Ca plays an important role on the modulation of the oxygen affinity and cooperativity, as a result of the binding to the oxy-form of the Hb, under a physiological range of Ca concentration(1).
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Igarashi, Y., Kimura, K., Kajita, A. (1986). Calcium Dependent Allosteric Modulation and Assembly of the Giant Hemoglobin from the Earthworm, Eisenia Foetida . In: Linzen, B. (eds) Invertebrate Oxygen Carriers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71481-8_16
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