| hemopexin |
a plasma glycoprotein, mol. wt. 57,000, in the β1-globulin band; it is produced by hepatocytes and its function is the binding of free heme in plasma; it has one binding site for hematin forming a tight complex that is taken up and degraded by hepatocytes.
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