"Hemerythrin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A non-heme iron protein consisting of eight apparently identical subunits each containing 2 iron atoms. It binds one molecule of oxygen per pair of iron atoms and functions as a respiratory protein.
| Descriptor ID |
D006422
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.157.427.374.187 D12.776.556.579.374.187
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Hemerythrin" by people in Profiles.
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Roles of the host oxidative immune response and bacterial antioxidant rubrerythrin during Porphyromonas gingivalis infection. PLoS Pathog. 2006 Jul; 2(7):e76.