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UK
/mˈaɪəɡlˌɒbɪn/
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NOUN
- a hemoprotein that receives oxygen from hemoglobin and stores it in the tissues until needed
How To Use myoglobin In A Sentence
- With porcine myoglobin genomic DNA fragment cloned in a cosmid as probe, the chromosome location of this gene was determined by fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH).
- Myoglobin is a red, oxygen - binding protein found in muscles.
- Hemoglobin, myoglobin, cytochromes, and other proteins are involved in oxygen transport and utilization.
- The key, she believes, may be the iron content of the blood and muscle proteins hemoglobin and myoglobin.
- The tertiary structure of myoglobin is that of a typical water soluble globular protein.
- Contamination of the apoprotein by myoglobin was assessed spectrophotometrically.
- The key, she believes, may be the iron content of the blood and muscle proteins hemoglobin and myoglobin.
- The majority of iron in humans is located in the porphyrin ring of heme that is incorporated into proteins and enzymes such as myoglobin, hemoglobin, cytochromes, catalases, and peroxidases.
- The definitive (and gruesome) proof came with the discovery of the human muscle protein myoglobin in the fossilized human feces of a prehistoric Anasazi pueblo Indian.
- Both these changes occur because heat denatures the myoglobin.