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Functions and Functioning of Crustacean Hemocyanin

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Respiratory Pigments in Animals

Abstract

Although the oxygen binding properties of hemocyanin have been known for over 100 years the structure or functioning of this oxygen carrier molecule was poorly known at the time of Wolverkamp and Waterman’s (1960) chapter on respiration in Waterman’s “Physiology of Crustacea” and today, 25 years later, although our data base is much expanded our knowledge is still rudimentary compared with that for say mammalian Hb. In functional terms we have abundant evidence that the crustacean hemocyanins (Hcy) are, in fact efficient oxygen carrier molecules, usually of moderate oxygen affinity, higher than usual cooperativity but lower than usual oxygen carrier capacity. Other important roles in carbon dioxide transport, in regulation of hemolymph acid-base balance, and as hemolymph osmoeffector molecules, are now also known but have been very much less well studied.

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  1. Laboratory of Biochemistry, University of Francois-Rabelais, 2, Boulevard Tonnellé, F-37032, Tours Cedex, France

    Jean Lamy (Scientific Editor) (Scientific Editor)

  2. Department of Pharmaceutical Science, University of Francois-Rabelais, 2, Boulevard Tonnellé, F-37032, Tours Cedex, France

    Jean Lamy (Scientific Editor) (Scientific Editor)

  3. Laboratory of Neurobiology and Compared Physiology, University of Bordeaux I, Place du Dr. Bertrand Peyneau, F-33120, Arcachon Cedex, France

    Jean-Paul Truchot (Scientific Editor) (Scientific Editor)

  4. Laboratory of Biochemistry, University of Liège, 22, Quai Van Benden, B-4020, Liège, Belgium

    Raymond Gilles (Coordinating Editor) (Coordinating Editor)

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McMahon, B. (1985). Functions and Functioning of Crustacean Hemocyanin. In: Lamy, J., Truchot, JP., Gilles, R. (eds) Respiratory Pigments in Animals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70616-5_4

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