Marine Corrinoid-Binding Proteins for th
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Mukesh K. Sahni; Stamatios Spanos; Miryam Z. Wahrman; Gurdial M. Sharma
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Article
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2001
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Under conditions of vitamin B12 deficiency the marine phytoplankton Thalassiosira pseudonana secretes into the growth medium a protein (Gm protein) that binds B12 specifically with an affinity constant of 2 x 10(11) M(-1). When Gm protein was used as a B12-specific binder in radioassays for the dire