Heme Molecule

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A Heme Molecule is a biomolecule that consists of iron cation bound at the center of the conjugate base of the porphyrin, as well as other ligands attached to the "axial sites" of the iron.



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2020

  1. A standard biochemistry text defines heme as the "iron-porphyrin prosthetic group of heme proteins"(Nelson, D. L.; Cox, M. M. “Lehninger, Principles of Biochemistry" 3rd Ed. Worth Publishing: New York, 2000. .)