The chemical mechanism of β-haematin formation studied by Mössbauer spectroscopy
- 15 August 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Biochemical Journal
- Vol. 318 (1) , 25-27
- https://doi.org/10.1042/bj3180025
Abstract
Spontaneous formation of β-haematin (malaria pigment) from haematin in acetate solution follows pseudo-zero-order and not autocatalytic kinetics. Acetate appears to facilitate the reaction by solubilizing the haematin and acting as a phase-transfer catalyst, a role which, in vivo, could be fulfilled by carboxylic acids or amino acids.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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