The more myoglobin there is in the cells, the redder, or darker, the meat.
They hypothesized that the charge differences allowed the aquatic species to pack
more myoglobin into their muscle cells.
The researchers found that stability was the key for cells to make large amounts of myoglobin, which is explains why deep - diving mammals can load their muscle cells with far
more myoglobin than humans.
«Whales and other deep - diving marine mammals can pack 10 to 20 times
more myoglobin into their cells than humans can, and that allows them to «download» oxygen directly into their skeletal muscles and stay active even when they are holding their breath,» said Olson, Rice's Ralph and Dorothy Looney Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology.
If they get back into the sea, their blood can circulate more freely, but this carries even
more myoglobin to the kidneys.
Attempting to refloat the whales at this point only makes the situation worse, as it allows their blood to circulate more freely, carrying even
more myoglobin into the kidneys.
Not exact matches
Iron is not only fascinating chemically, having six
more oxidation states than silver, but it has a rich biological chemistry too, forming the core of the oxygen - carrying proteins in blood —
myoglobin and haemoglobin — and playing centre field in many enzymatic systems.
However, thanks to subtle differences in their amino acid sequences, the
more stable
myoglobins are better able to retain their shapes.
Such efforts have revealed
more global dynamics, such as CO dissociation from
myoglobin, but without atomic - scale resolution.
Much less common — but
more serious — is rhabdomyolysis, in which muscle cells break down and release proteins such as
myoglobin that damage kidneys.
It is clear that our bodies uptake
more Heme iron than Non-Heme Iron that's why «
myoglobin and hemoglobin make up two thirds of the average person's total iron stores despite only constituting one - third of the iron that is actually ingested [4 - 6].»