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GLOBIN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A colorless protein obtained by removing heme from hemoglobin; the oxygen carrying compound in red blood cells
Synonyms:
globin; haematohiston; hematohiston
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("globin" is a kind of...):
simple protein (a protein that yields only amino acids when hydrolyzed)
Holonyms ("globin" is a substance of...):
haemoglobin; Hb; hemoglobin (a hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color; function primarily to transport oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues)
Context examples:
This transcription factor is involved in cellular antioxidant defense and beta-globin activity modulation.
(Nuclear Factor Erythroid 2-Related Factor 2, NCI Thesaurus)
Expression of the AHSP gene is coordinately activated with the globin genes and heme biosynthesis genes by the GATA-1 gene involved in erythrocyte differentiation.
(Hemoglobin Chaperone Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
The red respiratory protein of erythrocytes, consisting of approximately 3.8% heme and 96.2% globin (64.5 KD), which as oxyhemoglobin (HbO2) transports oxygen from the lungs to the tissues where the oxygen is readily released and HbO2 becomes Hb.
(Hemoglobin, NCI Thesaurus)
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