A versatile delivery vehicle for cellular oxygen and fuels, or metabolic sensor?-A review and perspective on the functions of myoglobin

KK Adepu, A Anishkin, SH Adams… - Physiological …, 2024 - journals.physiology.org
A canonical view of the primary physiological function of myoglobin (Mb) is that it is an
oxygen (O2) storage protein supporting mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation, especially …

[HTML][HTML] Myoglobin, expressed in brown adipose tissue of mice, regulates the content and activity of mitochondria and lipid droplets

MA Aboouf, J Armbruster, M Thiersch… - … Et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2021 - Elsevier
The identification of novel physiological regulators that stimulate energy expenditure
through brown adipose tissue (BAT) activity in substrate catalysis is of utmost importance to …

On the potential role of globins in brown adipose tissue: A novel conceptual model and studies in myoglobin knockout mice

ML Blackburn, UD Wankhade… - American Journal …, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
Myoglobin (Mb) regulates O2 bioavailability in muscle and heart as the partial pressure of
O2 (Po2) drops with increased tissue workload. Globin proteins also modulate cellular NO …

Metabolic physiology and skeletal muscle phenotypes in male and female myoglobin knockout mice

KD Ono-Moore, IM Olfert… - American Journal …, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
Myoglobin (Mb) is a regulator of O2 bioavailability in type I muscle and heart, at least when
tissue O2 levels drop. Mb also plays a role in regulating cellular nitric oxide (NO) pools …

Myoglobin: From physiological roles to potential implications in cancer

IE Elkholi, ME Elsherbiny, M Emara - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Reviews on …, 2022 - Elsevier
Myoglobin (MB) belongs to the well-studied globin proteins superfamily. It has been
extensively studied for its physiological roles in oxygen storage and transport for about a …

Keeping the heart in balance: the functional interactions of myoglobin with nitrogen oxides

U Flögel, A Fago, T Rassaf - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2010 - journals.biologists.com
Myoglobin (Mb) is an important intracellular oxygen-binding hemoprotein found in the
cytoplasm of skeletal and cardiac muscle tissue playing a well-known role in O2 storage and …

Unmasking the Janus face of myoglobin in health and disease

UB Hendgen-Cotta, U Flögel… - Journal of …, 2010 - journals.biologists.com
For more than 100 years, myoglobin has been among the most extensively studied proteins.
Since the first comprehensive review on myoglobin function as a dioxygen store by Millikan …

Oxygen supply and nitric oxide scavenging by myoglobin contribute to exercise endurance and cardiac function

MW Merx, A Gödecke, U Flögel… - The FASEB journal, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Recent studies of myoglobin (Mb) knockout (myo−/−) mice have extended our
understanding of Mb's diverse functions and have demonstrated a complex array of …

Changing the paradigm for myoglobin: a novel link between lipids and myoglobin

AE Schlater, MA De Miranda Jr… - Journal of Applied …, 2014 - journals.physiology.org
Myoglobin (Mb) is an oxygen-binding muscular hemeprotein regulated via Ca2+-signaling
pathways involving calcineurin (CN), with Mb increases attributed to hypoxia, exercise, and …

Myoglobin in Brown Adipose Tissue: A Multifaceted Player in Thermogenesis

MA Aboouf, TA Gorr, NM Hamdy, M Gassmann… - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Brown adipose tissue (BAT) plays an important role in energy homeostasis by generating
heat from chemical energy via uncoupled oxidative phosphorylation. Besides its high …