WormMine: GOTerm GO:0020037 heme binding GO

• Namespace: molecular_function
• Obsolete: false
• Description: Binding to a heme, a compound composed of iron complexed in a porphyrin (tetrapyrrole) ring.

0 Cross References

1 Data Sets

• GO Annotation data set

1 Ontology

• Name: GO

1234 Ontology Annotations

4 Parents

Identifier	Name	Description
GO:0003674	molecular_function	A molecular process that can be carried out by the action of a single macromolecular machine, usually via direct physical interactions with other molecular entities. Function in this sense denotes an action, or activity, that a gene product (or a complex) performs.
GO:0005488	binding	The selective, non-covalent, often stoichiometric, interaction of a molecule with one or more specific sites on another molecule.
GO:0046906	tetrapyrrole binding	Binding to a tetrapyrrole, a compound containing four pyrrole nuclei variously substituted and linked to each other through carbons at the alpha position.
GO:0020037	heme binding	Binding to a heme, a compound composed of iron complexed in a porphyrin (tetrapyrrole) ring.

3 Relations

Relationship	Parent Term . Identifier	Child Term . Identifier
is_a	GO:0046906	GO:0020037
is_a	GO:0005488	GO:0020037
is_a	GO:0003674	GO:0020037

1 Synonyms

• Name: haem binding
• Type: synonym