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The metabolic needs of peripheral tissues are such that organisms have been forced, in the evolutionary sense, to develop special systems to transport oxygen from the outer environment to the tissues. The chemical basis for oxygen transport is represented by the so-called respiratory proteins, namely, hemoglobins, hemocyanins, and hemerythrins, which differ greatly in the nature of the prosthetic group and of the proteins moiety (Brunori et al. 1982; Brunori et al. 1985). In order to ensure an adequate supply of oxygen to all parts of the organism in which they occur, these proteins have developed, in the course of evolution, a common molecular mechanism based on the principle of ligand-linked conformational change in a multi-subunit structure (Wyman 1968; Perutz 1970; Antonini and Brunori 1971).
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Giardina, B., Condò, S.G., Bardgard, A., Brix, O. (1991). Life in Arctic Environments: Molecular Adaptation of Oxygen-Carrying Proteins. In: di Prisco, G. (eds) Life Under Extreme Conditions. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76056-3_4
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