Invertebrate red blood cell carbonic anhydrase
- 31 March 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Experimental Zoology
- Vol. 242 (1) , 113-116
- https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.1402420117
Abstract
This is the first report documenting the presence of carbonic anhydrase (CA) for any invertebrate red cells. CA activity was measured in plasma, hemolysates of blood cells, and in hemolymph of selected species of invertebrates. Annelid red blood cells (RBC) and sipunculid pink blood cells both possessed significant levels of CA activity. Molluscan RBC, on the other hand, lacked CA activity. The distribution appears to have fallen along phylogenetic lines, with CA being present only in blood cells of the two more closely related groups. However, the presence of extracellular CA was confirmed in oyster hemolymph. Oyster hemolymph CA showed a similar affinity (Ki) for the sulfonamide inhibitors acetazolamide and ethoxzolamide, as did the vertebrate RBC CA II isozyme, supporting the idea that this isozyme could be the ancestral form of the enzyme.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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