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The binding of oxygen to hemoglobin has intrigued scientists since 1904 when the sigmoidal nature of its oxygen-binding curves was first noted by Bohr et al. (1904). During the following seven decades of research, hemoglobin has played a key role in the different phases of understanding of allosteric phenomena.
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Levitzki, A. (1978). Cooperativity in Multisubunit Proteins — The Basic Concepts. In: Quantitative Aspects of Allosteric Mechanisms. Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and Biophysics, vol 28. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81231-6_4
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