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UniProt functional annotation for P01958 | ||
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| UniProt code: P01958. |
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| Organism: | |
Equus caballus (Horse). |
| Taxonomy: | |
Eukaryota; Metazoa; Chordata; Craniata; Vertebrata; Euteleostomi; Mammalia; Eutheria; Laurasiatheria; Perissodactyla; Equidae; Equus. |
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| Function: | |
Involved in oxygen transport from the lung to the various peripheral tissues. |
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| 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.