Hb Thailand | alpha56(E5)Lys->Thr |
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CONTACT | External; crevice | ||
HEMATOLOGY | Normal in the heterozygote | ||
ELECTROPHORESIS | Hb X moves ahead of Hb A on starch gel at alkaline pH | ||
CHROMATOGRAPHY | Not reported | ||
STRUCTURE STUDIES | Tryptic digestion; separation of peptides by fingerprinting; amino acid analysis | ||
DNA ANALYSES | Not reported; presumed mutation AAG->ACG; alpha2 or alpha1 | ||
FUNCTIONAL STUDIES | Normal oxygen affinity | ||
STABILITY | Not reported | ||
OCCURRENCE | Found in a 32-year-old Thai male blood donor | ||
OTHER INFORMATION | Quantity in the heterozygote 28% |
REFERENCES | |||
1. | Pootrakul, S., Boonyarat, D., Kematorn, B., Suanpan, S., and Wasi, P.: Hemoglobin, 1:781, 1977. |