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HAEMOPROTEIN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does haemoprotein mean?
• HAEMOPROTEIN (noun)
The noun HAEMOPROTEIN has 1 sense:
1. a conjugated protein linked to a compound of iron and porphyrin
Familiarity information: HAEMOPROTEIN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A conjugated protein linked to a compound of iron and porphyrin
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
haemoprotein; hemoprotein
Hypernyms ("haemoprotein" is a kind of...):
compound protein; conjugated protein (a protein complex combining amino acids with other substances)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "haemoprotein"):
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)
myoglobin (a hemoprotein that receives oxygen from hemoglobin and stores it in the tissues until needed)
cytochrome ((biochemistry) a class of hemoprotein whose principal biological function is electron transfer (especially in cellular respiration))
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