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The Oxidation of Sulphide by the Haem Compounds From the Blood of Arenicola Marina

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Shakunt Patel  and
C. P. Spencer
Shakunt Patel*
Affiliation:
Marine Science Laboratories, Menai Bridge, Anglesey
C. P. Spencer
Affiliation:
Marine Science Laboratories, Menai Bridge, Anglesey
*
*Present address: Marine Biological Station (Annamlai University), Porto Novo (S.A. Dist.), Madras State, South India.
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Blood from Arenicola marina has been shown to contain an active catalyst of sulphide oxidation. This activity is associated with the respiratory pigments. Purified native haemoglobin and oxyhaemoglobin from this animal have similar activity in this respect to the analogous mammalian respiratory pigments and to mammalian hemiglobin. The oxidation product of Arenicola haemoglobin (the brown pigment) which is formed under conditions which might be expected to produce a hemiglobin is, in contrast, a very active catalyst of sulphide oxidation.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , February 1963 , pp. 167 - 175
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1963

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