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Recent Chemistry and Biochemistry of Bile Pigments
Author(s) -
Rüdiger Wolfhart
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition in english
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 0570-0833
DOI - 10.1002/anie.197004731
Subject(s) - bile pigments , chemistry , pigment , bile acid , algae , degradation (telecommunications) , biochemistry , organic chemistry , botany , biology , telecommunications , computer science
Abstract Bile pigments are not merely waste products of the degradation of hemoglobin, but have specific functions in plants and lower animals, in which they occur in the form of chromoproteins (biliproteins). Chromic acid degradation under controlled conditions is particularly suitable for structural investigations. In the case of the phycobilins (bile pigments of red and blue algae), not only have the structures been established, but the linkages with the proteins have also been located.