Figure 8
Comparison of measured solution scattering curves for the related proteins myoglobin and hemoglobin. The black curve is myoglobin, the red curve is hemoglobin. Note that the quaternary structure of hemoglobin as compared with the monomeric myoglobin leads to additional high-frequency fluctuations in the 1/d range 0.021–0.09 Å−1. The abscissa is in arbitrary units for relative intensity, and the ordinate is in units of Å−1. Detail of the peak at 0.03 Å−1 in the scattering from hemoglobin is shown in the inset contrasted with the myoglobin scattering curve devoid of that peak. |