Abstract

The study of hemoglobin oxygenation, starting from the classical works of Hill, has laid the foundation for molecular biophysics. The cooperative nature of oxygen binding to hemoglobin has been variously described in different models. In the Adair model, which better fits the experimental data, the constants of oxygen binding at various stages differ. However, the physical meaning of the parameters in this model remains unclear. In this work, we applied Hill’s approach, extending its interpretation; we obtained a good agreement between the theory and the experiment. The equation in which the Hill coefficient is modulated by the Lorentz distribution for oxygen partial pressure approximates the experimental data better than not only the classical Hill equation, but also the Adair equation.

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