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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 13.
Published in final edited form as: Biochemistry. 2010 Jul 13;49(27):5662–5670. doi: 10.1021/bi100710a

Table 1.

Autoxidation rates of selected globins.

Protein Autoxidation Rate (hr−1) Reference
GLB-6 (1–389) 4,428 this work
Cyt b5a 20 (58)
mNgbb 19 (5)
hNgbc 5.4 (5)
Lbd 0.2 (59)
rice Hbe 0.08 (60)
Sw Mbf 0.055 (61)
hHb (α chain)g 0.032 (62)
hHb (β chain)g 0.0037 (62)
Cgbh stablei (6, 63)
a

trypsin-cleaved calf liver cytochrome b5,

b

mouse neuroglobin,

c

human neuroglobin,

d

soybean leghemoglobin,

e

rice non-symbiotic hemoglobin,

f

sperm whale myoglobin,

g

human hemoglobin,

h

human cytoglobin,

i

negligible autoxidation observed (>1000 s)