MB
Available structures
PDBOrtholog search: PDBe RCSB
Identifiers
AliasesMB, PVALB, myoglobgin, myoglobin, Myoglobin
External IDsOMIM: 160000 MGI: 96922 HomoloGene: 3916 GeneCards: MB
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez

4151

17189

Ensembl

ENSG00000198125

ENSMUSG00000018893

UniProt

P02144

P04247

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_005368
NM_203377
NM_203378
NM_001362846

NM_001164047
NM_001164048
NM_013593

RefSeq (protein)

NP_001157519
NP_001157520
NP_038621

Location (UCSC)Chr 22: 35.61 – 35.64 MbChr 15: 76.9 – 76.93 Mb
PubMed search[3][4]
Wikidata
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Myoglobin (symbol Mb or MB) is an iron- and oxygen-binding protein found in the cardiac and skeletal muscle tissue of vertebrates in general and in almost all mammals.[5][6][7][8][9] Myoglobin is distantly related to hemoglobin. Compared to hemoglobin, myoglobin has a higher affinity for oxygen and does not have cooperative binding with oxygen like hemoglobin does.[8][10] Myoglobin consists of non-polar amino acids at the core of the globulin, where the heme group is non-covalently bounded with the surrounding polypeptide of myoglobin. In humans, myoglobin is only found in the bloodstream after muscle injury.[11][12][13]

High concentrations of myoglobin in muscle cells allow organisms to hold their breath for a longer period of time. Diving mammals such as whales and seals have muscles with particularly high abundance of myoglobin.[13] Myoglobin is found in Type I muscle, Type II A, and Type II B; although many texts consider myoglobin not to be found in smooth muscle, this has proved erroneous: there is also myoglobin in smooth muscle cells.[14]

Myoglobin was the first protein to have its three-dimensional structure revealed by X-ray crystallography.[15] This achievement was reported in 1958 by John Kendrew and associates.[16] For this discovery, Kendrew shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in chemistry with Max Perutz.[17][18] Despite being one of the most studied proteins in biology, its physiological function is not yet conclusively established: mice genetically engineered to lack myoglobin can be viable and fertile, but show many cellular and physiological adaptations to overcome the loss. Through observing these changes in myoglobin-depleted mice, it is hypothesised that myoglobin function relates to increased oxygen transport to muscle, and to oxygen storage; as well, it serves as a scavenger of reactive oxygen species.[19]

In humans, myoglobin is encoded by the MB gene.[20]

Myoglobin can take the forms oxymyoglobin (MbO2), carboxymyoglobin (MbCO), and metmyoglobin (met-Mb), analogously to hemoglobin taking the forms oxyhemoglobin (HbO2), carboxyhemoglobin (HbCO), and methemoglobin (met-Hb).[21]

Differences from hemoglobin

Like hemoglobin, myoglobin is a cytoplasmic protein that binds oxygen on a heme group. It harbors only one globulin group, whereas hemoglobin has four. Although its heme group is identical to those in Hb, Mb has a higher affinity for oxygen than does hemoglobin but fewer total oxygen-storage capacities.[22] The newest discovery reveals that myoglobin facilitates oxygen diffusion down a gradient, enhancing oxygen transport in mitochondria.

Role in cuisine

Myoglobin contains hemes, pigments responsible for the colour of red meat. The colour that meat takes is partly determined by the degree of oxidation of the myoglobin. In fresh meat the iron atom is in the ferrous (+2) oxidation state bound to an oxygen molecule (O2). Meat cooked well done is brown because the iron atom is now in the ferric (+3) oxidation state, having lost an electron. If meat has been exposed to nitrites, it will remain pink, because the iron atom is bound to NO, nitric oxide (true of, e.g., corned beef or cured hams). Grilled meats can also take on a reddish pink "smoke ring" that comes from the heme center binding to carbon monoxide.[23] Raw meat packed in a carbon monoxide atmosphere also shows this same pink "smoke ring" due to the same principles. Notably, the surface of this raw meat also displays the pink color, which is usually associated in consumers' minds with fresh meat. This artificially induced pink color can persist, reportedly up to one year.[24] Hormel and Cargill (meat processing companies in the US) are both reported to use this meat-packing process, and meat treated this way has been in the consumer market since 2003.[25]

Role in disease

Myoglobin is released from damaged muscle tissue, which contain very high concentrations of myoglobin.[26] The released myoglobin enters the bloodstream, where high levels lead to rhabdomyolysis. The myoglobin is filtered by the kidneys, but is toxic to the renal tubular epithelium and so may cause acute kidney injury.[27] It is not the myoglobin itself that is toxic (it is a protoxin), but the ferrihemate portion that is dissociated from myoglobin in acidic environments (e.g., acidic urine, lysosomes).

Myoglobin is a sensitive marker for muscle injury, making it a potential marker for heart attack in patients with chest pain.[28] However, elevated myoglobin has low specificity for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and thus CK-MB, cardiac troponin, ECG, and clinical signs should be taken into account to make the diagnosis.[29]

Structure and bonding

Myoglobin belongs to the globin superfamily of proteins, and as with other globins, consists of eight alpha helices connected by loops. Myoglobin contains 153 amino acids.[30]

Myoglobin contains a porphyrin ring with an iron at its center. A proximal histidine group (His-93) is attached directly to iron, and a distal histidine group (His-64) hovers near the opposite face.[30] The distal imidazole is not bonded to the iron, but is available to interact with the substrate O2. This interaction encourages the binding of O2, but not carbon monoxide (CO), which still binds about 240× more strongly than O2.

The binding of O2 causes substantial structural change at the Fe center, which shrinks in radius and moves into the center of N4 pocket. O2-binding induces "spin-pairing": the five-coordinate ferrous deoxy form is high spin and the six coordinate oxy form is low spin and diamagnetic.[citation needed]

Synthetic analogues

Many models of myoglobin have been synthesized as part of a broad interest in transition metal dioxygen complexes. A well known example is the picket fence porphyrin, which consists of a ferrous complex of a sterically bulky derivative of tetraphenylporphyrin.[32] In the presence of an imidazole ligand, this ferrous complex reversibly binds O2. The O2 substrate adopts a bent geometry, occupying the sixth position of the iron center. A key property of this model is the slow formation of the μ-oxo dimer, which is an inactive diferric state. In nature, such deactivation pathways are suppressed by protein matrix that prevents close approach of the Fe-porphyrin assemblies.[33]

A picket-fence porphyrin complex of Fe, with axial coordination sites occupied by methylimidazole (green) and dioxygen. The R groups flank the O2-binding site.

See also

References

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  8. ^ a b Wilson MT, Reeder BJ (2006). "MYOGLOBIN". Encyclopedia of Respiratory Medicine. Elsevier. pp. 73–76. doi:10.1016/b0-12-370879-6/00250-7. ISBN 978-0-12-370879-3. Myoglobin (Mb) is a heme-containing globular protein that is found in abundance in myocyte cells of heart and skeletal muscle.
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Further reading

  • Collman JP, Boulatov R, Sunderland CJ, Fu L (Feb 2004). "Functional analogues of cytochrome c oxidase, myoglobin, and hemoglobin". Chemical Reviews. 104 (2): 561–88. doi:10.1021/cr0206059. PMID 14871135.
  • Reeder BJ, Svistunenko DA, Cooper CE, Wilson MT (Dec 2004). "The radical and redox chemistry of myoglobin and hemoglobin: from in vitro studies to human pathology". Antioxidants & Redox Signaling. 6 (6): 954–66. doi:10.1089/ars.2004.6.954. PMID 15548893.
  • Schlieper G, Kim JH, Molojavyi A, Jacoby C, Laussmann T, Flögel U, et al. (Apr 2004). "Adaptation of the myoglobin knockout mouse to hypoxic stress". American Journal of Physiology. Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology. 286 (4): R786-92. doi:10.1152/ajpregu.00043.2003. PMID 14656764. S2CID 24831969.
  • Takano T (Mar 1977). "Structure of myoglobin refined at 2-0 A resolution. II. Structure of deoxymyoglobin from sperm whale". Journal of Molecular Biology. 110 (3): 569–84. doi:10.1016/S0022-2836(77)80112-5. PMID 845960.
  • Roy A, Sen S, Chakraborti AS (Feb 2004). "In vitro nonenzymatic glycation enhances the role of myoglobin as a source of oxidative stress". Free Radical Research. 38 (2): 139–46. doi:10.1080/10715160310001638038. PMID 15104207. S2CID 11631439.
  • Stewart JM, Blakely JA, Karpowicz PA, Kalanxhi E, Thatcher BJ, Martin BM (Mar 2004). "Unusually weak oxygen binding, physical properties, partial sequence, autoxidation rate and a potential phosphorylation site of beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) myoglobin". Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology B. 137 (3): 401–12. doi:10.1016/j.cbpc.2004.01.007. PMID 15050527.
  • Wu G, Wainwright LM, Poole RK (2003). Microbial globins. Advances in Microbial Physiology. Vol. 47. pp. 255–310. doi:10.1016/S0065-2911(03)47005-7. ISBN 9780120277476. PMID 14560666.
  • Mirceta S, Signore AV, Burns JM, Cossins AR, Campbell KL, Berenbrink M (Jun 2013). "Evolution of mammalian diving capacity traced by myoglobin net surface charge". Science. 340 (6138): 1234192. doi:10.1126/science.1234192. PMID 23766330. S2CID 9644255.. Also see Proteopedia article about this finding

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