Isolation and characterization of adenochrome, a unique iron(III)-binding peptide from Octopus vulgaris
- 1 January 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1
- No. 11,p. 2617-2623
- https://doi.org/10.1039/p19790002617
Abstract
Adenochrome, the iron(III)-containing pigment from the branchial heart of Octopus vulgaris, has been isolated as colourless desferri-adenochrome (DFA) and shown to consist of a mixture of closely related peptides derived from glycine and three isomeric amino-acids, adenochromines A, B, and C, which were formulated as the novel dopa derivatives (1a), (1b), and (1c), respectively, by spectral and chemical evidence.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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