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The Heme Group. In hemoglobin, each subunit contains a heme group, which is displayed using the ball-and-stick representation in Figure 2. Each heme group contains an iron atom that is able to bind to one oxygen (O 2) molecule. Therefore, each hemoglobin protein can bind four oxygen molecules. One of the most important classes of chelating agents in nature are the porphyrins.
Specifically, the oxyhemoglobin dissociation curve relates oxygen saturation (S. 2) and partial pressure of oxygen in the blood (P. 2), and is determined by what is called hemoglobin affinity for oxygen; that is, how readily hemoglobin acquires and releases oxygen molecules into the fluid that surrounds it. hemoglobin molecule can bind up to four oxygen molecules in a reversible way. The shape of the curve results from the interaction of bound oxygen molecules with incoming molecules. The binding of the first molecule is difficult.