heme protein

heme pro·tein

(hēm prō'tēn)

Any protein containing an iron-porphyrin (heme) prosthetic group resembling that of hemoglobin.
Synonym(s): haemprotein, haem protein.

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Porphyrins are usually attached to heme protein molecules.

Mind as a virtual phase-conjugated hologram

The structure-function relationship and ligand-binding have been intensely studied on holoMb as a typical heme protein.

Folding of apomyoglobin: analysis of transient intermediate structure during refolding using quick hydrogen deuterium exchange and NMR

The primary pigment of myoglobin, a heme protein, is mainly responsible for meat color in animals (Mancini and Hunt, 2005).

Iron Glycine Chelate on Meat Color, Iron Status and Myoglobin Gene Regulation of M. longissimus dorsi in Weaning Pigs

Interaction of nitric oxide with heme protein using UV-VIS spectroscopy.

Malarial anaemia and nitric oxide induced megaloblastic anaemia: a review on the causes of malarial anaemia

Binding of pyridoxal 5'-phosphate to the heme protein human cystathionine [beta]-synthase.

Homogeneous, nonradioactive, enzymatic assay for plasma pyridoxal 5-phosphate

We know it is an effective siderophore and that it can make increased amounts of iron available from the soil to the rhizobia-plant symbiosis, which helps to make the heme protein in leghaemoglobin.

Soybean Nodules, Nitrogen Fixation and Chemicals

The ability to prepare a variety of heme iron ligand adducts with H93(3 Mb demonstrates its versatility as a template for the preparation of heme protein model complexes.

The HIS937GLY cavity mutant of sperm whale myoglobin as a template for ferric, ferrous and feryl heme states of mixed ligand complexes. (South Carolina Academy of Sciences Abstracts)

The heme protein is a tetramer composed of two copies each of two nonidentical subunits (beta and gamma) and contains 1 mol of ferriheme per mol of protein.

Localization of the chloroperoxidase of the capitellid polychaete Notomastus lobatus

In the present study, we have used magnetic circular dichroism to show that ShuS is a six-coordinate low spin heme protein ligated by histidine and OH.

Role of ShuS in Shigella dysentariae Heme Acquisition and Utilization

The antioxidative effect of whey proteins is mainly associated with beta-lactoglobulin and lactoferrin due to their ability to inactivate prooxidative heme proteins (ferrylmyoglobin) and to bind iron [14].

Effect of acid whey and freeze-dried cranberries on lipid oxidation and fatty acid composition of nitrite-/nitrate-free fermented sausage made from deer meat

Neither underwent reductive nitrosylation, a typical reaction for heme proteins (3).

Investigation of the oxygen-producing enzyme chlorite dismutase

When peroxide enters cell, it quickly reacts with heme proteins present in the cell to form hypervalent complexes, which can lead to lipid peroxidation.