Production of bacteria and yeast of hemoglobin and analogues thereof

摘要

A method of producing a hemoglobin-like protein wherein an alpha globin-like polypeptide and a beta globin-like polypeptide are each expressed in transformed non-erythrocyte cells such as bacterial or yeast cells, the method comprising expressing the alpha and beta globin-like polypeptide in the same cell in such manner that the alpha and beta globin-like polypeptides are assembled and combined with heme so as to intracellularly produce a biologically functional hemoglobin-like protein in soluble, recoverable form.