... Sendai, Japan3 Department of Biochemistry, Yamagata University School of Medicine, Yamagata, JapanHeme oxygenase (HO) is the rate-limiting enzyme in heme catabolism and cleaves heme to release iron, ... levelYongzhao Zhang1, Kazumichi Furuyama1, Kiriko Kaneko1, Yuanying Ding1, Kazuhiro Ogawa2,*,Miki Yoshizawa1, Masaki Kawamura1, Kazuhisa Takeda1, Tadashi Yoshida3and Shigeki Shibahara11 ... line,and then subjected to northern blot analysis. Each lane contains15 lg of total RNA. The bottom panel shows the expression of b-actin mRNA as an internal control. (B) Western blot analysis. The indicated...