The Journal of General Physiology, Vol 35, 41-44,
Copyright © 1951 by The Rockefeller University Press
THE OXYGEN EQUILIBRIUM OF THE HEMOGLOBIN OF THE EEL, ANGUILLA ROSTRATA
Austen Riggs 1
1 From the Biological Laboratories, Harvard University, Cambridge
Kawamoto had reported that eel hemoglobin has a hyperbolic oxygen equilibrium function, with n in the Hill equation equal to 1. On the basis of Kawamoto's data and with new measurements, it is shown that the equilibrium function is in fact S-shaped, as in most other vertebrates, and n in Hill's equation equals 1.8.
Submitted on February 27, 1951