myoglobin

How To Use myoglobin In A Sentence

• Harbor seals have muscles rich in myoglobin, an oxygen carrying molecule.
• By mutations that place the histidine in a similar distance to the heme as in the active site of peroxidases, compound I of myoglobin has been observed, probably owing to an increased rate of heterolysis.
• Using this method Perutz determined the molecular structure of the protein haemoglobin that transports oxygen in the blood, and Kendrew, his colleague at Cambridge University, determined the molecular structure of the smaller, related protein myoglobin. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1962 - Speed Read
• The heme of another protein, myoglobin, carries oxygen within muscle cells.
• The tertiary structure of myoglobin is that of a typical water soluble globular protein.
• The blood protein hemoglobin and its relative, myoglobin, carry and store life-giving oxygen in many animals.
• This nematode haemoglobin is chemically similar to myoglobin and has the highest affinity for oxygen of any known animal haemoglobin.
• Whale muscles contain large amounts of myoglobin, a protein that pulls oxygen from the blood.
• In addition, adult respiratory distress syndrome has been reported. 10 Cardiovascular instability with severe hypotension and metabolic acidosis may predominate due to the volume depletion, cardiac failure and arrhythmias. 13 Oliguric renal failure develops due to pre-renal azotemia, myoglobinuria and a direct toxic effect of colchicine on the renal tubules. Colchicine Poisoning
• Further studies show that myoglobin, which is an in vivo biomolecule, is able to accelerate the scavenging of H2O2 by NADH notably due to its peroxidatic activity.