title: Cause of the root effect in fish haemoglobins.
abstract: The unusual properties of the Root effect haemoglobins in teleost fish --which allow them to pump O2 into their swim bladders and eyes against very high pressures--are illuminated in a new fish haemoglobin structure.
authors.affiliation: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Perutz
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D002347:Carps; D005399:Fishes / Q000502:physiology*; D006454:Hemoglobins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D008961:Models, Structural; D010108:Oxyhemoglobins / Q000378:metabolism; D014337:Trout; D014714:Vertebrates
chemical_list: D006454:Hemoglobins; D010108:Oxyhemoglobins