The time course of the recombination of hemoglobin from isolated alpha- and beta-chains (human) was studied by following the change in small-angle scattering from a reaction mixture using synchrotron radiation. The scattering patterns were recorded successively within 51 s at intervals of 200 ms. The results suggest that when 2 mM solutions of CO-liganded alpha- and beta-chains are mixed in stoichiometric amounts at pH 7.4, the tetramerization process is a pseudo-first-order reaction with a rate constant of 0.059 s-1, i.e., a half-time of approx. 12 s.
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