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Heme vs P - What's the difference?

heme | p |

As a noun heme

is heme / haem.

As a letter p is

the sixteenth letter of the.

As a symbol p is

symbol for phosphorus.

heme

English

Alternative forms

* haem (British )

Noun

  • The component of hemoglobin (and other hemoproteins) responsible for binding oxygen, consists of an iron ion that binds oxygen and a porphyrin ring that binds the globin molecules; one molecule binds one molecule of oxygen.
  • * 2008 , John Greer, John Foerster, George Rodgers, Fixos Paraskevas, Bertil Glader, Daniel Arber, Robert Means Jr, Wintrobe's Clinical Hematology: Volume One: Twelfth Edition , page 141:
    • The binding of oxygen to the iron molecule causes the hemoglobin molecule to undergo conformational changes that affect the binding of oxygen to other heme sites.

    Derived terms

    * diheme * monoheme * multiheme * octaheme * tetraheme * triheme

    See also

    * hemoglobin * bilirubin * red blood cell * ----

    p

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=o, next=q, image= (wikipedia p)

    Letter

  • The sixteenth letter of the .

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * With hook: * (wynn) {{Letter , page=P , NATO=Papa , Morse=·––· , Character=P , Braille=? }} Image:Latin P.png, Capital and lowercase versions of P , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter P.png, Uppercase and lowercase P in Fraktur

    Symbol

    (Voiceless bilabial plosive) (head)
  • voiceless bilabial plosive
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