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DR. E. F. HARTREE recently gave me a preparation of horse oxyhaemoglobin crystals which he had grown from 20 percent alcoholic solution. It was found that these give good X-ray diffraction pictures both in the wet and the air-dried state, and that they promise to become an interesting subject for X-ray analysis. Though the present preliminary survey of the crystal structure has not led to any new information regarding the molecular architecture of oxyhaemoglobin, it has already given some useful hints about the way in which the molecules are arranged in the crystal.
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PERUTZ, M. CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF OXYHÆMOGLOBIN. Nature 150, 324–325 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150324a0
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