Kendrew, J. C., Bodo, G., Dintzis, H. M., Parrish, R. G., Wyckoff, H. W., and Phillips, D. C., Nature, 181, 662 (1958).

In 1958, British biochemist John Kendrew and colleagues published the first X-ray crystallography-generated atomic structure of a protein: that of myoglobin, a heme-binding protein found in muscle ...

But what exactly is happening? The explanation is quite simple. When myoglobin combines with oxygen, its structure changes, causing the meat to take on a greyish hue. This process is entirely ...