8.592 - HST.452J (Spring 2025)

Statistical Physics in Biology

Lecture 17

Cooperativity & Hemoglobin

• Cooperativity in biology
• Slides in pdf format
• Lecture notes on the MWC model (2009)
• Lecture notes from 2018
• Hill 1910, where the hill equation is derived

(Kardar notes)

Some related links

• Structure and function of haemoglobin; cooperativity