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The Structural Analysis of Large Noncovalent Oxygen Binding Proteins Current Protein <strong>and</strong> Peptide Science, 2008, Vol. 9, No. 2 171<br />

Fig. (7). MALLS <strong>and</strong> ESI-MS analysis of dissociated AmHb.<br />

(a,b) Partially dissociated AmHb analyzed by ESI-MS under non-denaturing conditions (a) <strong>and</strong> by SEC-MALLS (b). (a) The smoothed <strong>and</strong><br />

subtracted multiply charged spectrum of partially dissociated AmHb, analyzed under non-denaturing conditions. The molecular weight of the<br />

components A, B <strong>and</strong> C were respectively 229 399.22, 70 387.7 <strong>and</strong> 449 558.7 Da calculated with MaxEnt. The number after the colon in the<br />

Inset indicates the number of charges on the ion. The components A were attributed to the 1/12th subunit (D+L), B to a transitory dissociated<br />

product <strong>and</strong> C to truncated HBL-Hb. MaxEnt does not allow the calculation of the other components because of low resolution. They could<br />

correspond to other truncated HBL-Hb. The envelop at ~22 000 m/z could correspond to the native HBL-Hb. (b) The SEC-MALLS chromatogram<br />

of partially dissociated AmHb allow the observation of native AmHb HBL-Hb at 3608 kDa, of the truncated HBL-Hb <strong>and</strong> of the<br />

1/12th subunits at 228.8 kDa. (c) The smoothed <strong>and</strong> subtracted spectrum of AmHb analysed under non-denaturing conditions. Three envelops<br />

are observed <strong>and</strong> MaxEnt allowed the calculation of the component A: 203 660 Da <strong>and</strong> B: 399 419 Da which correspond respectively to<br />

AmHb Dodecamer (D) <strong>and</strong> dimerisation of D probably due to the high concentration used for the analysis. The complementarities of these<br />

data allowed to propose a novel dissociation mechanism for AmHb, through the formation of truncated HBL-Hb, 1/12th subunits <strong>and</strong> the<br />

dissociation of linkers from the dodecamer D [6].<br />

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