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metmyoglobin

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metmyoglobin /met·myo·glo·bin/ (met-mi″ah-glo´bin) a compound formed from myoglobin by oxidation of the ferrous to the ferric state.
met·my·o·glo·bin (mt-m-glbn)
n.
Abbr. metMb Myoglobin in which the ferrous ion of the heme prosthetic group is oxidized.

metmyoglobin [met-mi″o-glo´bin]
a compound formed from myoglobin by oxidation of the ferrous to the ferric state with essentially ionic bonds.

metmyoglobin
a compound formed from myoglobin by oxidation of the ferrous to the ferric state with essentially ionic bonds.


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Discoloration caused by the formation of metmyoglobin can be retarded by reducing equivalents, such as NADH--the reduced form of beta-nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide.
The peak corresponding to metmyoglobin reduction appears at around -0.
Even protein structures such as the 1261 atom metmyoglobin have been refined from high-resolution synchrotron x-ray powder data [20].
 
 
 
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