Structure and Function of Invertebrate Oxygen Carriers

✍ Scribed by Nicolas Boisset, Jean-Christophe Taveau, Jean Lamy (auth.), Serge N. Vinogradov, Oscar H. Kapp (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 352
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Oxygen binding proteins are large multi unit proteins ideally suited for the study of structure function relationships in biological molecules. This book, based on a Symposium at the Xth International Biophysics Congress in 1990, provides a synthesis of recent advances in our knowledge of invertebrate oxygen carriers such as hemoglobins, hemocyanins, and hemorythrins. Comprehensive reviews are combined with new research results of importance to all biochemists and molecular biologists interested in oxygen carriers in general, their gene structure and comparative biochemistry. Of particular value are the studies of invertebrate oxygen binding proteins which perform their function and have structures vastly different from the vertebrate hemoglobins and myoglobins, as well as numerous examples of modern molecular techniques as applied to research on this diverse group of proteins.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Front Matter....Pages xxv-xxv
The Architecture of 4x6-meric Arachnid Hemocyanin....Pages 1-8
Static and Kinetic Studies on the Dissociation of Limulus polyphemus Hemocyanin with Solution X-Ray Scattering....Pages 9-18
The Di-decameric Hemocyanin of the Atlantic Murex Snail, Muricanthus fulvescens (Sowerby)....Pages 19-24
Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM) Studies of Molluscan Hemocyanins....Pages 25-32
Spectroscopic Analysis of Temperature-Induced Unfolding of the Hemocyanin from the Tarantula Eurypelma californicum ....Pages 33-36
Subunit Structure of the Hemocyanin from the Arthropod Ovalipes catharus ....Pages 37-48
Crosslinking with Bifunctional Reagents and its Application to the Determination of the Quaternary Structures of Invertebrate Extracellular Hemoglobins....Pages 49-57
Arthropod ( Cyamus scammoni , Amphipoda) Hemoglobin Structure and Function....Pages 59-63
The Principal Subunit of Earthworm Hemoglobin is a Dodecamer of Heme-Containing Chains....Pages 65-72
Heterogeneity of the Products of Dissociation of Lumbricus terrestris Hemoglobin at Alkaline pH....Pages 73-77
Studies on the Dissociation of Eudistylia vancouverii Chlorocruorin....Pages 79-86
Front Matter....Pages 87-87
Nested Allostery of Arthropod Hemocyanins....Pages 89-98
Subunits and Cooperativity of Procambarus clarki Hemocyanin....Pages 99-107
Analysis of Oxygen Equilibrium Using the Adair Model for the Hemocyanin of Limulus polyphemus and the Hemoglobin of Eisenia foetida ....Pages 109-113
Structural and Functional Characterization of the Hemoglobin from Lumbricus terrestris ....Pages 115-120
Interaction of Divalent Metal Ions with the Hemoglobin of Glossoscolex paulistus : an EPR Study....Pages 121-125
Oxidation of the Extracellular Hemoglobin of Glossoscolex paulistus ....Pages 127-131
Kinetic Evidences for Slow Structural Changes in the Chlorocruorin from Spirographis spallanzanii ....Pages 133-138
Scapharca inaequivalvis Hemoglobins: Novel Cooperative Assemblies of Globin Chains....Pages 139-145
High and Low Spin Forms of Oxidized Dimeric Scapharca inaequivalvis Hemoglobin....Pages 147-152
Front Matter....Pages 87-87
Aplysia Myoglobin: Involvement of Two Kinds of Carboxyl Groups in the Autoxidation Reaction....Pages 153-159
Aplysia limacina Myoglobin: Molecular Bases for Ligand Binding....Pages 161-170
Biophysical Characterization of Constituents of the Glycera dibranchiata Oxygen Transport and Utilization System: Erythrocytes and Monomer Hemoglobins....Pages 171-177
Oxygen Equilibrium Characteristics of Hemerythrins from the Brachiopod, Lingula unguis , and the Sipunculid, Siphonosoma cumanense ....Pages 179-189
The Dynamics of Dioxygen Binding to Hemerythrin....Pages 191-198
Distribution of Hemerythrin’s Conformational Substates from Kinetic Investigations at Low Temperature....Pages 199-203
Front Matter....Pages 205-205
Translation of the cDNA Sequence for the Polymeric Hemoglobin of Artemia ....Pages 207-216
Structure of the Extracellular Hemoglobin of Tylorrhynchus heterochaetus ....Pages 217-226
cDNA Cloning, Sequencing and Expressing the cDNA for Glycera dibranchiata Monomer Hemoglobin Component IV....Pages 227-232
Identification of the cDNA for Some of the Polymeric Globins of Glycera dibranchiata ....Pages 233-237
The cDNA Sequences Encoding the Polymeric Globins of Glycera dibranchiata ....Pages 239-244
Primary Structure of 440 kDa Hemoglobin from the Deep-Sea Tube Worm Lamellibrachia ....Pages 245-249
Protozoan Hemoglobins: Their Unusual Amino Acid Sequences....Pages 251-256
Primary Structure of the Beta Chain of the Tetrameric Hemoglobin from Anadara broughtonii ....Pages 257-260
Partial Amino Acid Sequence of Hemoglobin II from Lucina pectinata ....Pages 261-264
The Globin Composition of Daphnia pulex Hemoglobin....Pages 265-269
The Hemoglobin of Ascaris suum : Structure and Partial Sequence of Domain 1....Pages 271-277
Nomenclature of the Major Constituent Chains Common to Annelid Extracellular Hemoglobins....Pages 279-283
Front Matter....Pages 285-285
Complete Nucleotide Sequence of a Hemoglobin Gene Cluster from the Midge Chironomus thummi piger ....Pages 287-296
The Primary Structure of Several Hemoglobin Genes from the Genome of Chironomus tentans ....Pages 297-303
Front Matter....Pages 285-285
The Structure and Function of Chironomus Hemoglobins....Pages 305-312
Transcriptional Control of Vitreoscilla Hemoglobin Synthesis....Pages 313-321
Hemoglobins of Eukaryote/Prokaryote Symbioses....Pages 323-330
Modulation of Oxygen Binding in Squid Blood....Pages 331-336
The Role of Heme Compounds in Sulfide Tolerance in the Echiuran Worm Urechis caupo ....Pages 337-346
Back Matter....Pages 347-352

✦ Subjects

Zoology