Abstract
Carbamate formation, the reversible reaction of carbon dioxide with amines, markedly influences the function of two proteins which interact with the gaseous environment — hemoglobin and ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase. Carbamate formation occurs on specific α- and ϵ-amino groups on each of these proteins. However, the facility of carbamate formation and the ubiquity of carbon dioxide suggest that this form of metabolic regulation may be considerably more widespread.
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