Alpha-Hemoglobin-Stabilizing Protein: An Erythroid Molecular Chaperone
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Alpha-Hemoglobin-Stabilizing Protein: An Erythroid Molecular Chaperone
Alpha-hemoglobin-stabilizing protein (AHSP) is an erythroid-specific protein that acts as a molecular chaperone for the free α chains of hemoglobin. Evidence strongly suggests that AHSP participates in hemoglobin synthesis and may act to neutralize the cytotoxic effects of excess free alpha-globin subunits that accumulate both in normal and beta-thalassemic erythroid precursor cells. As such, A...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biochemistry Research International
سال: 2011
ISSN: 2090-2247,2090-2255
DOI: 10.1155/2011/373859