globin

Etymology

Borrowed from German Globin, from Latin globus.

noun

1. (biochemistry) Any globular protein that incorporates a globin fold.
2. (biochemistry) One of several polypeptides that are the protein components of haemoglobin or myoglobin.
   Injuries and conditions that cause an acid pH environment cause the globin (protein) molecule to separate from the ferrihemate (iron-containing) component of the myoglobin molecule. 2005, Sharon G. Childs, “Rhabdomyolysis”, in Orthopaedic Nursing, volume 24, number 6, →PMID, page 445
   Globin switches in yolk sac–like primitive and fetal-like definitive red blood cells produced from human embryonic stem cells [title of article] 2008-02-08, Caihong Qiu, Emmanuel N. Olivier, Michelle Velho, Eric E. Bouhassira, “Globin switches in yolk sac–like primitive and fetal-like definitive red blood cells produced from human embryonic stem cells”, in Blood, volume 111, number 4, →DOI
   The results showed that the globin expression in the erythroid cells in individual clones changed in a time-dependent manner. 2008-10-02, Feng Ma et al., “Generation of functional erythrocytes from human embryonic stem cell-derived definitive hematopoiesis”, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, volume 105, number 35, →DOI