Pub. Date : 2002 Aug
PMID : 12230871
1 Functional Relationships(s)Download |
Sentence | Compound Name | Protein Name | Organism |
| 1 | HO-1 cleaves the porphyrin macrocycle of heme at the expense of molecular oxygen to release a linear tetrapyrrole biliverdin, carbon monoxide, and ferrous iron; biliverdin is rapidly reduced to bilirubin. | Oxygen | heme oxygenase 1 | Homo sapiens |