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SUBMITTER: Remigante A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7022719 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Remigante Alessia A Morabito Rossana R Marino Angela A
Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) 20191226 1
Band 3 protein (B3p) exchanging Cl<sup>-</sup> and HCO<sub>3</sub><sup>-</sup> through erythrocyte membranes is responsible for acid balance, ion distribution and gas exchange, thus accounting for homeostasis of both erythrocytes and entire organisms. Moreover, since B3p cross links with the cytoskeleton and the proteins underlying the erythrocyte membrane, its function also impacts cell shape and deformability, essential to adaptation of erythrocyte size to capillaries for pulmonary circulation ...[more]