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Hemoglobin

Caption: Hemoglobin (PDB ID 4hhb), one of the earliest structures deposited in the archive. Today, there are dozens of structures of hemoglobin in the PDB, showing the process of oxygen binding and revealing the molecular details of sickle cell anemia.

Credit: Protein Data Bank and David Goodsell

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