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Myoglobin

Known as: Myoglobin [Chemical/Ingredient], myoglobins 
A conjugated protein which is the oxygen-transporting pigment of muscle. It is made up of one globin polypeptide chain and one heme group.
National Institutes of Health

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Broader (4)

Carrier ProteinsGlobinHemeproteinsMuscle Proteins
In BloodMB geneMyoglobin Ag:PrThr:Pt:Tiss:Ord:Immune stainMyoglobin measurement

Narrower (12)

apomyoglobinbiliverdin-apomyoglobin complexcarboxymyoglobincarboxysulfmyoglobin

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Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Copeptin improves early diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction.
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Watching a Protein as it Functions with 150-ps Time-Resolved X-ray Crystallography
We report picosecond time-resolved x-ray diffraction from the myoglobin (Mb) mutant in which Leu29 is replaced by Phe (L29Fmutant… 
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Mapping the Pathways for O2 Entry Into and Exit from Myoglobin*
The effects of mutagenesis on geminate and bimolecular O2 rebinding to 90 mutants at 27 different positions were used to map… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Disruption of myoglobin in mice induces multiple compensatory mechanisms.
Myoglobin may serve a variety of functions in muscular oxygen supply, such as O(2) storage, facilitated O(2) diffusion, and… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Mice without myoglobin
Myoglobin, an intracellular haemoprotein expressed in the heart and oxidative skeletal myofibres of vertebrates, binds molecular… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Removal of endotoxin from recombinant protein preparations.
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Crystal structure of photolysed carbonmonoxy-myoglobin
MYOGLOBIN is a globular haem protein that reversibly binds lig-ands such as O2 and CO. Single photons of visible light can break… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
High-level expression of sperm whale myoglobin in Escherichia coli.
Sperm whale myoglobin was expressed in Escherichia coli from a totally synthetic gene inserted in the expression vector pUC19… 
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
Cooperativity in the dissociation of nitric oxide from hemoglobin.
Highly Cited
1973
Highly Cited
1973
An enzymic reduction system for metmyoglobin and methemoglobin, and its application to functional studies of oxygen carriers.
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