OXIDATION-REDUCTION POTENTIALS AND THE POSSIBLE RESPIRATORY SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PIGMENT OF THE NUDIBRANCH CHROMODORIS ZEBRA
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- 20 January 1930
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of general physiology
- Vol. 13 (3) , 349-359
- https://doi.org/10.1085/jgp.13.3.349
Abstract
1. Oxidation-reduction potential methods have been applied to a study of the blue-purple pigment present in solution in the blood and in the tissue cells of the nudibranch Chromodoris zebra. 2. The blue-purple pigment and its yellow reduction product form a reversible system whose Eo' = x0.102 volts at pH 7.0 and whose valence change from oxidant to reductant appears to be one. 3. The system is unlike oxyhemoglobin-hemoglobin in the mode of oxygen transfer. Its rôle as a possible respiratory material is discussed.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: