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Quaternary Structure of Arthropod Hemocyanins

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Respiratory Pigments in Animals

Abstract

Hemocyanins, the blue respiratory pigments of many Arthropods, are generally considered as resulting from successive dimerizations of a building block composed of six kidney-shaped (70–75 kDa) subunits. This basic structural unit, called hexamer or (1×6)-mer, is a constituent of both crustacean and cheliceratan hemocyanins. Crustáceas contain (1×6)- meric hemocyanins in the spiny lobster Panulirus interruptus or in the shrimp Penaeus setiferus, (2×6)-mers in most species, and tetrahydral (4×6)-mers in some Thalassinid shrimps belonging to the genus Callianassa and Upoqebia. Chelicerates which are considered more primitive than Crustáceas, at least from a paleontological point of view, possess more complex hemocyanins. Actually, hemocyanins of all the still living horseshoe crabs are (8×6)- mers, those of scorpions, primitive spiders, Uropygia and Amblypygia are flat (4×6)-meric structures while those of modern spiders are mostly (2×6)-mers. A more complete description of the phylogenic distribution of hemocyanins is found in recent reviews (Ellerton et al., 1983; van Holde and Miller, 1982).

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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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Lamy, J., Lamy, J., Sizaret, PY., Billiald, P., Motta, G. (1985). Quaternary Structure of Arthropod Hemocyanins. 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_6

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