HEMIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hemin mean? 

• HEMIN (noun)
  The noun HEMIN has 1 sense:

1. a reddish-brown chloride of heme; produced from hemoglobin in laboratory tests for the presence of blood

  Familiarity information: HEMIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEMIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A reddish-brown chloride of heme; produced from hemoglobin in laboratory tests for the presence of blood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

hemin; protohemin

Hypernyms ("hemin" is a kind of...):

chloride (any compound containing a chlorine atom)

 Context examples 

This species is indole negative, hydrolyzes starch, requires hemin for growth and reduces resazurin but not neutral red.

(Parabacteroides distasonis, NCI Thesaurus)

The K562 line is composed of undifferentiated blast cells that are rich in glycophorin and may be induced to produce fetal and embryonic hemoglobin in the presence of hemin.

(K-562, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonmotile, indole and esculin positive, forms pleomorphic rods in PYG broth, requires vitamin B12 to produce propionate from succinate, and hemin stimulates growth and produces succinate and acetate.

(Bacteroides eggerthii, NCI Thesaurus)

Kinases activated by viral infection (PKR), endoplasmic reticulum stress (PERK/PEK), amino acid deprivation (GCN2), and hemin deficiency (HRI) can phosphorylate the a subunit of eIF-2.

(eIF2 Regulation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

This species is indole negative, hydrolyzes starch, but not gelatin, requires vitamin K and hemin for growth, hemolytic on rabbit's blood agar, reduces neutral red and resazurin, produces hydrogen sulfide after 5 days, and does not utilize lactate, threonine or gluconate.

(Parabacteroides merdae, NCI Thesaurus)