myoglobin
Noun
Meaning
a hemoprotein that receives oxygen from hemoglobin and stores it in the tissues until needed
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3D structure of the myoglobin protein.
As a consequence, they have thick, dark myoglobin -rich breast muscles adapted for a fast and aerobically strenuous wing-beat cadence, which they can nonetheless maintain for long periods of time.
Berta, Sumich, and Kovacs, p. 241. As with other diving mammals, pinnipeds have high amounts of hemoglobin and myoglobin stored in their blood and muscles.
Carbon monoxide also combines with hemoglobin and myoglobin with the help of facilitated diffusion just as it is in oxygen but the rate at which they react differs from one another.
D. thesis; Watson also had other work such as trying to obtain crystals of myoglobin for X-ray diffraction experiments.
"Factors influencing facilitated diffusion of oxygen in the presence of hemoglobin and myoglobin".