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root effect
noun
A physiological phenomenon in fish hemoglobin, whereby an increased proton or carbon dioxide concentration (lower pH) lowers hemoglobin's affinity and carrying capacity for oxygen.
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The Bohr effect depends on an ateriovenous pH gradient sustained by respiratory acidosis (CO2), whereas the Root effect is activated by fixed acid (lactate) and, unless localized in specific retial tissues, may seriously compromise effective oxygen transport in hypoxic situations.
This suggests that the root effect is small or is offset by high organic matter content in the surface layer under RT, and that the magnitude of the effect was greater under CT.
Structural basis for the root effect in haemoglobin.
Surprisingly, a set of residues specific to root effect haemoglobins recruit additional residues, conserved among most haemoglobins, to produce the root effect.
The remarkable ability of root effect haemoglobins to pump oxygen against high O2 gradients results from extreme, acid-induced reductions in O2 affinity and cooperativity.
Spot hemoglobin possesses a Root effect: a heterotropic control mechanism like the Bohr effect but with more extreme pH dependence in the equilibria and kinetics of O2 and CO binding.
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However a global analysis of the now available data on root effects is still lacking.
However, there is little knowledge of species-specific root effects on greenhouse gas fluxes between forest soils and the atmosphere.
Such root effects may increase host susceptibility to drought, and indicate that BYDV-PAV pathogenicity is determined by something other than a P0 VSR.
This scattering of GPR reflection was due to the non-uniform distribution of water in fractured shale bedrock and possible tree root effects.
Highly active species tend to have high O2‐carrying capacities, relatively low blood O2‐affinities, sigmoidal binding curves, marked Bohr and Root effects, and O2‐affinity is modulated by adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
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