Hemerythrin (also spelled haemerythrin; from Greek words αίμα = blood and ερυθρός = red) is an oligomeric protein responsible for oxygen (O2) transport in the marine invertebrate phyla of sipunculids, priapulids, brachiopods, and in a single annelid worm genus, Magelona. Myohemerythrin is a monomeric O2-binding protein found in the musc...
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(from the article `coloration`) Iron-containing, proteinaceous pigments, hemerythrins are present in the blood of certain bottom-dwelling marine worms (notably burrowing ... The third iron-containing pigments, the hemerythrins, are violet. They differ structurally from both hemoglobin and chlorocruorin in having no ... [2 related art...
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