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Myoglobin structure [1]

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 Myoglobin (oxy) (pH 8.4); sperm whale
1MBO image
a		 1MBO haem group image
b

  1. Ribbon representation of the myoglobin structure (PDB code 1MBO).
  2. Haem-O2 plus proximal and distal residues. Fe-O-O angle is about 120°.
All drawings were produced by using the program MOLSCRIPT [2].

References

  1. Phillips, S.E.V. (1980) Structure and refinement of oxymyoglobin at 1.6 Å resolution. J. Mol. Biol. 142, 531-554.
  2. Kraulis, P.J. (1991) MOLSCRIPT: a program to produce both detailed and schematic plots of protein structure. J. Appl. Crystallogr. 24, 946-950.
Bibliography on structural studies of globins: A-H, I-P and Q-Z