Hypoxia and Medicine

haemoglobin myoglobin kinetic comparison png

Summary: saturation with oxygen is equivalent to the saturation of the active site of an enzyme myoglobin shows normal saturation kinetics but haemoglobin shows sigmoid kinetics Binding constant Kb = Hb O2 n+1 ⁄ Hb O2 n O2

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