Crosslinked and Polymerized Hemoglobins as Potential Blood Substitutes

Kenneth W. Olsen, Eugene Tarasov

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationChemistry and Biochemistry of Oxygen Therapeutics
Subtitle of host publicationFrom Transfusion to Artificial Blood
PublisherJohn Wiley and Sons
Pages327-344
Number of pages18
ISBN (Print)9780470686683
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 4 2011
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • General Biochemistry,Genetics and Molecular Biology

Keywords

  • Crosslinked and polymerized hemoglobins - as potential blood substitutes
  • Crosslinking Hb, logical step - in avoiding Hb extravasation into tissue
  • Crosslinking tetramer before polymerization - stabilizing protein controlling oxygen affinity
  • Double crosslinking of protein - Hb, crosslinking followed by PEGylation
  • Hb octamer formation - using azide-alkyne click chemistry
  • Hb polymers, large Hb oligomer development - using polymerization methods
  • HBOC production, modification of hemoglobin (Hb) tetramer - properties for blood substitute
  • Multilinker structures, and multilinking - three or more groups on Hb
  • Multilinker success - and tetralinked Hb octamer production
  • Polymerization, by sulfhydryl-maleimide click chemistry

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