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Unravelling the Chemical Basis of the Bathochromic Shift of the Lobster Carapace Carotenoprotein Crustacyanin

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This chapter will review the atomic structural details of the lobster carotenoid-protein complex, crustacyanin, discovered in the last 5 years, and also present, in that context, an overview description of several new carotenoid crystal structures, protein free, in various new crystal packing arrangements. The interrelationship of structure, dynamics and function and the tuning of the colours are well illustrated by these molecular structures. This field of structural chemistry research contains much that is seemingly magical, namely the colour shift and the mystery to us of how this has evolved in Nature

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  1. University of Pretoria, South Africa

    Jan C.A. Boeyens

  2. Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica

    J.F. Ogilvie

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Helliwell, J.R., Helliwell, M. (2008). Unravelling the Chemical Basis of the Bathochromic Shift of the Lobster Carapace Carotenoprotein Crustacyanin. In: Boeyens, J.C., Ogilvie, J. (eds) Models, Mysteries and Magic of Molecules. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5941-4_8

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