Globin

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  • noun. The protein constituent of hemoglobin and myoglobin.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The proteid substance which with hematin makes up the larger part of the red blood-corpuscles. It is possibly a mixture of several distinct proteids.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. a colorless protein obtained by removing heme from hemoglobin; the protein part of hemoglobin.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. One of several polypeptides that are the protein components of haemoglobin in blood.
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  • noun. a colorless protein obtained by removing heme from hemoglobin; the oxygen carrying compound in red blood cells
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    "The normal expression of human beta globin is highly dependent upon the stability of its encoding mRNA."
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