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Primary Structure of 440 kDa Hemoglobin from the Deep-Sea Tube Worm Lamellibrachia

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Structure and Function of Invertebrate Oxygen Carriers

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The deep-sea tube worms Riftia and Lamellibrachia belong to the phylum Vestimentifera (1) and are found in hydrothermal vents or cold seeps at depths of 600-2500 m (2, 3). These invertebrate animals are sustained by mutual symbiosis with sulfide-oxidizing bacteria (4), and their Hb-containing blood transports hydrogen sulfide, which is extremely toxic to hemecontaining proteins and to internal symbiont bacteria (5), and which facilitates O2 transport (6).

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  1. BiologicaI Institute, Faculty of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 980, Japan

    Takashi Takagi & Hisashi Iwaasa

  2. Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 164, Japan

    Suguru Ohta

  3. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Kochi Univeristy, Kochi, 780, Japan

    Tomohiko Suzuki

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  2. Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA

    Oscar H. Kapp

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Takagi, T., Iwaasa, H., Ohta, S., Suzuki, T. (1991). Primary Structure of 440 kDa Hemoglobin from the Deep-Sea Tube Worm Lamellibrachia . In: Vinogradov, S.N., Kapp, O.H. (eds) Structure and Function of Invertebrate Oxygen Carriers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3174-5_32

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