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Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Blood Proteins > Hemoglobins > Erythrocruorins
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Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Arthropod Proteins > Erythrocruorins

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Erythrocruorins  

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Scope note

  • High molecular weight (1,500,000 to 3,000,000) hemoglobins found in the plasma of many polychete and oligochete annelid worms, crustaceans, insects, and mollusks. They bind one mole of oxygen per heme and function as oxygen carriers.

History note

  • 1991 (1977); use HEMOGLOBINS 1977-1990

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D004902

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