What she found instead was evidence of heme in the bones-additional support for the idea that they were red blood cells.
With red meat, it may be the high amount of heme iron, he says.
Second, the enzyme deficiency prevents them from breaking down toxic protein precursors of heme, called porphyrins.
They put a smaller structure inside it called a heme, a large flat molecule that is the active part of hemoglobin.
Iron found in foods is either in the form of heme or non-heme iron.
British Dictionary definitions for heme
haem
/hiːm/
noun
1.
(biochem) a complex red organic pigment containing ferrous iron, present in haemoglobin
Word Origin
C20: shortened from haematin
heme in Medicine
heme (hēm) n. The deep red, oxygen-carrying, nonprotein, ferrous component of hemoglobin. Also called reduced hematin.
heme in Science
heme
(hēm) The deep red, nonprotein, iron-containing component of hemoglobin that carries oxygen. Heme is a porphyrin with an iron atom at its center. One of the free valence electrons of the iron atom of heme is bound to the hemoglobin molecule, while the other is available for binding to an oxygen atom. A hemoglobin molecule contains four hemes. Chemical formula:C34H32FeN4O4.