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NATURE
Volume 407, Issue 6803, Pages 520-523Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/35035093
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Haemoglobins and myoglobins constitute related protein families that function in oxygen transport and storage in humans and other vertebrates(1,2). Here we report the identification of a third globin type in man and mouse. This protein is predominantly expressed in the brain, and therefore we have called it neuroglobin. Mouse neuroglobin is a monomer with a high oxygen affinity (half saturation pressure, P(50) approximate to 2 torr). Analogous to myoglobin, neuroglobin may increase the availability of oxygen to brain tissue. The human neuroglobin gene (NGB), located on chromosome 14q24, has a unique exon-intron structure. Neuroglobin represents a distinct protein family that diverged early in metazoan evolution, probably before the Protostomia/Deuterostomia split.
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