Three-dimensional reconstruction of hexagonal bilayered haemoglobins
Lamy, J. (1997). Three-dimensional reconstruction of hexagonal bilayered haemoglobins, in: Biologie des sources hydrothermales profondes = Biology of deep-sea hydrothermal vents: Journées d'échanges du Programme DORSALES = DORSALES Workshop Roscoff 6-8 octobre 1997. Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 38(2): pp. 131
In: (1997). Biologie des sources hydrothermales profondes = Biology of deep-sea hydrothermal vents: Journées d'échanges du Programme DORSALES = DORSALES Workshop Roscoff 6-8 octobre 1997. Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 38(2)[s.n.][s.l.]. 111-149 pp., more
In: Cahiers de Biologie Marine. Station Biologique de Roscoff: Paris. ISSN 0007-9723; e-ISSN 2262-3094, more
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| Abstract |
At the Banyuls Workshop in December 1995, we described a 3D reconstruction volume obtained from Riftia pachyptila haemoglobin observed in vitreous ice in transmission electron microscopy (de Haas et al., 1996). In addition, we compared this volume to those of Macrobdella decora (achaete), Lumbricus terrestris (oligochaete) haemoglobins and of Eudistylia vancouverii (polychaete) chlorocruorin. All the reconstruction volumes had resolutions close to 40 Angstrom and exhibited very similar general architectures. Specifically, all the molecules had the same chirality with the vertices of the upper hexagonal layer 16 degree rotated clockwise around the 6-fold axis. Since that time, F. de Haas reconstructed the haemoglobin of another polychaete worm, Alvinella pompejana, collected during the Hero'2 expedition. |
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