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Comparative spectral absorption characteristics of hemoglobins in elasmobranches, cartilaginous ganoids, and Teleostei

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The spectrophotometric parameters of the main hemoglobin forms, deoxy-, oxy-, and carboxyhemoglobin, were studied in representatives of cartilaginous ganoids (giant sturgeon), elasmobranches (piked dogfish, thresher), and bony fish (the Mediterranean horse mackerel). It was established that the hemoglobin absorption spectra in the studied fish species do not have distinct specific features with respect to positions of maxima of absorption bands, their number, and extinctions. There were differences revealed in the process of deoxygenation of oxyhemoglobin in cartilaginous fish, on one hand, and cartilaginous ganoids and bony fish, on the other hand. Incomplete deoxygenation of the piked dogfish oxyhemoglobin appears to be due to the presence of two hemoglobin fractions with different values of the Bohr effect.

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Translated from Zhurnal Evolyutsionnoi Biokhimii i Fiziologii, Vol. 41, No. 1, 2005, pp. 29–32.

Original Russian Text Copyright © 2005 by Vasil’ev.

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Vasil’ev, A.S. Comparative spectral absorption characteristics of hemoglobins in elasmobranches, cartilaginous ganoids, and Teleostei. J Evol Biochem Phys 41, 34–38 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10893-005-0032-4

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