Why heme needs to be degraded to iron, biliverdin IXα, and carbon monoxide?

Antioxidants and Redox Signaling

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 819-824

  Sassa, Shigeru ^a,b  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ASTELLAS PHARMA INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 AMINOLEVULINATE SYNTHASE; BILIVERDIN; CARBON MONOXIDE; HEME; HEME OXYGENASE 1; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON; PROTEIN BACH1; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOSYNTHESIS; BONE MARROW; CATABOLISM; CATALYSIS; DEGRADATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ERYTHROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; HEMOGLOBIN SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; METABOLITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW;

BILIVERDINE; CARBON MONOXIDE; HEME; HEME OXYGENASE (DECYCLIZING); HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; IRON; ISOENZYMES;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 4544220638     PISSN: 15230864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ars.2004.6.819     Document Type: Review

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