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Sperm whale myglobin in the deoxy (1a6n) and oxy (1a6m) states

What structural elements are present in each molecule?
What is the subunit composition?
What is the coordination geometry about the metal ion?
What changes occur upon oxygenation?

Vojtechovsky, J., J. Berendzen, K. Chu, I. Schlichting, and R. M. Sweet. Implications for the mechanism of ligand discrimination and identification of substates derived from crystal structures of myoglobin-ligand complexes at atomic resolution, to be published.