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Recent Insights into the Diversity and Evolution of Invertebrate Hemerythrins and Extracellular Globins

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Vertebrate and Invertebrate Respiratory Proteins, Lipoproteins and other Body Fluid Proteins

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Abstract

There are three broad groups of oxygen-transport proteins found in the haemolymph (blood) of invertebrates, namely the hemocyanins, the hemerythrins and the globins. Both hemerythrins and extracellular globins are iron-based proteins that are understudied when compared to the copper-containing hemocyanins. Recent evidence suggests that hemerythrins and (giant) extracellular globins (and their linker chains) are more widely distributed than previously thought and may have biological functions beyond oxygen transport and storage. Herein, we review contemporary literature of these often-neglected proteins with respect to their structural configurations on formation and ancestral states.

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We should like to thank Fernando Avila Queiroz (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) for valuable help with the figures and Flavia A. Belato (University of Sao Paulo) for critically reading the text. A Fellowship to EMC-P was provided by FAPESP (Sao Paulo Research Foundation, Brazil).

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Costa-Paiva, E.M., Coates, C.J. (2020). Recent Insights into the Diversity and Evolution of Invertebrate Hemerythrins and Extracellular Globins. In: Hoeger, U., Harris, J. (eds) Vertebrate and Invertebrate Respiratory Proteins, Lipoproteins and other Body Fluid Proteins. Subcellular Biochemistry, vol 94. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41769-7_10

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