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In the next Haemocyanin Workshop we ought to celebrate the centennial of the terms “haemocyanin” and “oxyhaemocyanin”, coined in 1878 by Leon Fredericq (1851–1935), who later became professor of physiology at the State University of Liege. Préparateur at the time at the State University of Ghent, he spent the second half of July and the month of August 1878 at the newly established laboratory in Roscoff, Brittany, working on the physiology of the octopus (Florkin, 1943). He realized that the colourless blood substance, a protein, became blue on binding oxygen reversibly and acted as an oxygen carrier. He could not detect any iron, but found instead the presence of copper (Fredericq, 1878).
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Lontie, R. (1977). On the Active Site of Molluscan Haemocyanin and of Tyrosinases. Opening Address. In: Bannister, J.V. (eds) Structure and Function of Haemocyanin. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66679-7_19
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