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heme biosynthetic process

Known as: haem biosynthetic process, heme anabolism, heme synthesis 
The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of heme, any compound of iron complexed in a porphyrin (tetrapyrrole) ring, from less… 
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Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Rapid dark repression of 5-aminolevulinic acid synthesis in green barley leaves.
In photosynthetic organisms chlorophyll and heme biosynthesis is tightly regulated at various levels in response to environmental… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Leaf Developmental Age Controls Expression of Genes Encoding Enzymes of Chlorophyll and Heme Biosynthesis in Pea (Pisum sativum L.)
The effects of leaf developmental age on the expression of three nuclear gene families in pea (Pisum sativum L.) coding for… 
Review
1993
Review
1993
Biochemistry of porphyria.
Review
1993
Review
1993
Chemistry and biology of heme. Effect of metal salts, organometals, and metalloporphyrins on heme synthesis and catabolism, with special reference to clinical implications and interactions with…
Although free porphyrins occur in nature in small quantities, no known function has been assigned to them. In contrast, heme and… 
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Apo forms of cytochrome C550 and cytochrome cd1 are translocated to the periplasm of Paracoccus denitrificans in the absence of haem incorporation caused by either mutation or inhibition of haem…
An apo form of cytochrome C550 can be detected by immunoblotting cell‐free extracts of a mutant of Paracoccus denitrificans that… 
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Acquisition of iron from transferrin regulates reticulocyte heme synthesis.
Highly Cited
1977
Highly Cited
1977
Yeast mutants blocked in removing the methyl group of lanosterol at C-14. Separation of sterols by high-pressure liquid chromatography.
Sterols of a nystatin resistant mutant of the wild type parent of Saccharomyces cerevisiae were separated by a newly developed… 
Highly Cited
1977
Highly Cited
1977
Cobalt regulation of heme synthesis and degradation in avian embryo liver cell culture.
Inorganic cobalt was found to induce heme oxygenase activity in primary cultures of embryonic chick liver cells and to inhibit… 
Highly Cited
1969
Highly Cited
1969
Studies on red cell aplasia. II. Report of a second patient with an antibody to erythroblast nuclei and a remission after immunosuppressive therapy.
When the marrow from a patient with red cell aplasia was incubated in vitro a marked increase in heme synthesis occurred. Heme… 
Highly Cited
1967
Highly Cited
1967
Steroid induction of porphyrin synthesis in liver cell culture. I. Structural basis and possible physiological role in the control of heme formation.
Abstract 1. A number of steroid metabolites strongly stimulate porphyrin biosynthesis in chick embryo liver cells growing in… 
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