 Intracellular Organic Phosphates as Regulators of Oxygen Release by Haemoglobin by Reinhold Benesch and Ruth E. Benesch

Reinhold Benesch and Ruth E. Benesch, Nature 221, 618–622, 15 February 1969. DOI 10.1038/221618a0; PMID 5774935. Publisher abstract: 2,3-diphosphoglycerate in red cells, lowered oxygen affinity through preferential binding to deoxyhaemoglobin and one phosphate-metabolite molecule per haemoglobin tetramer. Full author names follow the publisher byline; no expansion of Ruth's middle initial is inferred.