Nature of Oxygen Sensor

It is not clear whether these different responses are induced by various 02-sensing signal cascades. One hypothesis supposes a cascade to consist of mitochondrial or nonmitochondrial heme proteins sensing oxygen with a subsequent second-messenger formation, as for instance reactive oxygen species (ROS), which influence via an iron-mediated Fenton reaction the stability of hypoxia-inducible 

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