Mice without myoglobin

DJ Garry, GA Ordway, JN Lorenz, NB Radford, ER Chin… - Nature, 1998 - nature.com
Myoglobin, an intracellular haemoprotein expressed in the heart and oxidative skeletal
myofibres of vertebrates, binds molecular oxygen and may facilitate oxygen transport from …

Disruption of myoglobin in mice induces multiple compensatory mechanisms

A Gödecke, U Flögel, K Zanger… - Proceedings of the …, 1999 - National Acad Sciences
Myoglobin may serve a variety of functions in muscular oxygen supply, such as O2 storage,
facilitated O2 diffusion, and myoglobin-mediated oxidative phosphorylation. We studied the …

Neutron diffraction reveals oxygen–histidine hydrogen bond in oxymyoglobin

SEV Phillips, BP Schoenborn - Nature, 1981 - nature.com
Myoglobin (Mb) reversibly binds molecular oxygen in vertebrate muscle and consists of a
polypeptide chain of 153 residues and one haem, which closely resembles one subunit of a …

A vertebrate globin expressed in the brain

T Burmester, B Weich, S Reinhardt, T Hankeln - nature, 2000 - nature.com
Haemoglobins and myoglobins constitute related protein families that function in oxygen
transport and storage in humans and other vertebrates,. Here we report the identification of a …

Myoglobin facilitates oxygen diffusion

MW Merx, U Flögel, T Stumpe, A Gödecke… - The FASEB …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, the hemodynamic effects of acute myoglobin (Mb) inhibition with CO on
isolated hearts of wild‐type (WT) mice were examined at different degrees of oxygenation …

Emerging roles for myoglobin in the heart

DJ Garry, SB Kanatous, PPA Mammen - Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2003 - Elsevier
Myoglobin (Mb) is an intensely studied hemoprotein that is restricted mainly to the heart and
oxidative myofibers in skeletal muscle. Previous physiologic and pharmacologic studies …

Hypoxia-inducible myoglobin expression in nonmuscle tissues

J Fraser, L Vieira de Mello, D Ward… - Proceedings of the …, 2006 - National Acad Sciences
Myoglobin (Myg) is an oxygen-binding hemoprotein that is widely thought to be expressed
exclusively in oxidative skeletal and cardiac myocytes, where it plays a key role in coping …

Functional and molecular adaptations in skeletal muscle of myoglobin-mutant mice

RW Grange, A Meeson, E Chin… - … of Physiology-Cell …, 2001 - journals.physiology.org
Myoglobin is a cytoplasmic hemoprotein that is restricted to cardiomyocytes and oxidative
skeletal myofibers and facilitates oxygen delivery during periods of high metabolic demand …

Hypoxia induces heart regeneration in adult mice

Y Nakada, DC Canseco, SW Thet, S Abdisalaam… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The adult mammalian heart is incapable of regeneration following cardiomyocyte loss,
which underpins the lasting and severe effects of cardiomyopathy. Recently, it has become …

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 …