Monday, March 31, 2014

Function / Use Hemoglobin (Hb) and the structure of hemoglobin (Hb)

Hemoglobin in the blood carries oxygen from the lungs to all body tissues and bring back carbon dioxide from whole cells to the lungs and expelled from the body . Myoglobin acts as a reservoir of oxygen : accept , store and release oxygen in muscle cells . A total of approximately 80 % iron in the body is in hemoglobin ( Sunita , 2001) .
According to MOH as for hemoglobin , among others :

    
Regulate the exchange of oxygen with carbon dioxide in the body tissues .
    
Take oxygen from the lungs and then carried to all tissues of the body to be used as fuel .
    
Brings carbon dioxide from the tissues of the body as a result of metabolism to the lungs to waste, to determine whether a person is deprived of blood or not , can be determined by measuring hemoglobin levels . The decrease in mean hemoglobin levels of normal blood deficiency called anemia ( Widayanti , 2008) .
Structure of Hemoglobin ( Hb )
At the center of the molecule consisting of a heterocyclic ring , known as porphyrins that hold one atom of iron , the iron atom is the site / local bonding of oxygen . Iron -containing porphyrin called heme . The name is a combination of hemoglobin heme and globin , the globin as a generic term for globular proteins . There are several proteins containing heme and hemoglobin are the most well known and widely studied .
In adult humans , hemoglobin is a tetramer ( containing 4 submit a protein ) , which consists of two of each of the alpha and beta subunits are non- covalently bound . Sub- units are structurally similar and similarly sized . Each subunit has a molecular weight of approximately 16,000 Dalton , so that the total molecular weight of 64,000 Dalton tetramernya be . Each subunit of hemoglobin contains one heme , so the overall capacity of hemoglobin has four oxygen molecules ( Wikipedia , 2007) .

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