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myoglobin
[ mahy-uh-gloh-bin, mahy-uh-gloh- ]
noun
- hemoglobin of muscle, weighing less and carrying more oxygen and less carbon monoxide than blood hemoglobin.
myoglobin
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noun
- a protein that is the main oxygen-carrier of muscle
myoglobin
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- An iron-containing protein found in muscle fibers, consisting of heme connected to a single peptide chain that resembles one of the subunits of hemoglobin. Myoglobin combines with oxygen released by red blood cells and transfers it to the mitochondria of muscle cells, where it is used to produce energy.
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Origin of myoglobin1
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The meatball was made of sheep cells inserted with a singular mammoth gene called myoglobin.
That’s because this wasn’t blood; it was a hemoglobin cousin, myoglobin, the oxygen-carrying component of muscle, which is released into the bloodstream after an injury.
It’s actually myoglobin, a protein that gives meat and its juices their red color.
His urine was dark because the oxygen-carrying parts of the muscle known as myoglobin were collecting in the kidneys.
The authors showed that the protein AncMH, the last common ancestor of haemoglobin and the related protein myoglobin, existed as a monomer.
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