Hemoproteins in the cold

C Verde; D Giordano; R Russo; A Riccio; A Vergara; L Mazzarella; G di Prisco

doi:10.1016/j.margen.2009.03.004

Hemoproteins in the cold

Mar Genomics. 2009 Mar;2(1):67-73. doi: 10.1016/j.margen.2009.03.004. Epub 2009 Apr 1.

Authors

C Verde¹, D Giordano, R Russo, A Riccio, A Vergara, L Mazzarella, G di Prisco

Affiliation

¹ Institute of Protein Biochemistry, CNR, Via Pietro Castellino 111, I-80131 Naples, Italy.

PMID: 21798174
DOI: 10.1016/j.margen.2009.03.004

Abstract

This review highlights some aspects of the biochemistry of cold-adapted hemoproteins in fish and bacteria, without claiming to be exhaustive. Heme hexacoordination where the sixth ligand is provided by an internal amino-acid residue, in cold-adapted hemoproteins will be discussed.