Structure and Function of Invertebrate Oxygen Carriers

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