globin

Borrowed from German Globin, from Latin globus.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡləʊ.bɪn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡloʊ.bɪn/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡləʉ.bɪn/
• Rhymes: -əʊbɪn
• Hyphenation: glo‧bin

globin (plural globins)

1. (biochemistry) Any globular protein that incorporates a globin fold.
2. (biochemistry) One of several polypeptides that are the protein components of haemoglobin or myoglobin.
   • 2005, Sharon G. Childs, “Rhabdomyolysis”, in Orthopaedic Nursing, volume 24, number 6, →PMID, page 445:

     Injuries and conditions that cause an acid pH environment cause the globin (protein) molecule to separate from the ferrihemate (iron-containing) component of the myoglobin molecule.

   • 2008 February 8, Caihong Qiu, Emmanuel N. Olivier, Michelle Velho, Eric E. Bouhassira, “Globin switches in yolk sac–like primitive and fetal-like definitive red blood cells produced from human embryonic stem cells”, in Blood, volume 111, number 4, →DOI:

     Globin switches in yolk sac–like primitive and fetal-like definitive red blood cells produced from human embryonic stem cells [title of article]

   • 2008 October 2, Feng Ma et al., “Generation of functional erythrocytes from human embryonic stem cell-derived definitive hematopoiesis”, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, volume 105, number 35, →DOI:

     The results showed that the globin expression in the erythroid cells in individual clones changed in a time-dependent manner.

• Boglin, Boling, GOBLin, goblin, lobing