Crystallography and oriented single crystal electron microscopy of hemoglobin deer II, a hemoglobin that exhibits matchstick-shaped erythrocytes.
Deer hemoglobin beta chain type II has been crystallized and preliminary diffraction data and oriented single crystal transmission electron micrographs have been obtained. The crystals are monoclinic P21 with Z = 4. The electron micrographs show a herringbonelike structure in the ab plane with open rectangular solvent channels and a fiber-like arrangement of molecules perpendicular to this plane.
D000818:Animals; D055598:Chemical Phenomena; D002621:Chemistry; D003670:Deer / Q000097:blood*; D004913:Erythrocytes, Abnormal; D006455:Hemoglobins, Abnormal; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D013045:Species Specificity; D014961:X-Ray Diffraction
D006455:Hemoglobins, Abnormal; C017359:hemoglobin deer II