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Occurrence of Riboflavin in Sturgeon Skin

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LOOMEIFER1 has reported the presence of a yellow fluorescent pigment in elastin and has commented upon the views of Szent-Györgyi2 on the function of riboflavin-5-phosphate in metabolism as an energy transmitter. Blair and Graham3found riboflavin to be present in the skin of green snakes. These reporta of fluorescent materials associated with connective tissues, which are metabolically relatively inert, have prompted this note of the occurrence of riboflavin in sturgeon skin. These observations form part of a survey on non-teleostean fish collagen.

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  1. Loomeifer, F. J., Nature, 182, 182 (1958).

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  2. Szent-Györgyi, A., “Bioenergetics” (Academic Press, New York, 1957).

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  3. Blair, J. A., and Graham, J., Biochem. J., 56, 286 (1954).

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COURTS, A. Occurrence of Riboflavin in Sturgeon Skin. Nature 185, 463–464 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/185463a0

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