| UniProt functional annotation for P01958 | |||
| UniProt code: P01958. |
| Organism: | Equus caballus (Horse). | |
| Taxonomy: | Eukaryota; Metazoa; Chordata; Craniata; Vertebrata; Euteleostomi; Mammalia; Eutheria; Laurasiatheria; Perissodactyla; Equidae; Equus. | |
| Function: | Involved in oxygen transport from the lung to the various peripheral tissues. | |
| Subunit: | Heterotetramer of two alpha chains and two beta chains. | |
| Tissue specificity: | Red blood cells. | |
| Polymorphism: | Horse has two non-allelic alpha chains, slow and fast. The slow chain sequence is shown. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:2835578, ECO:0000269|PubMed:6093055}. | |
| Similarity: | Belongs to the globin family. {ECO:0000255|PROSITE- ProRule:PRU00238}. | |
Annotations taken from UniProtKB at the EBI.