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(biochemistry, uncountable) A globular structural protein that polymerizes in a helical fashion to form an actin filament (or microfilament).
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A rhodopsin found in the freshwater actinobacterium Rhodoluna lacicola
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A red pigment present in the branchial heart tissue of the octopus
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(biochemistry) A photoprotein, isolated from luminescent jellyfish and other marine organisms, composed of two distinct units: the apoprotein apoaequorin and the prosthetic group coelenterazine.
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(biochemistry) Any of a group of accessory pigments to chlorophyll
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Alternative spelling of allophycocyanin [(biochemistry) Any of a group of accessory pigments to chlorophyll]
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Alternative form of bacteriopheophytin [(biochemistry) Any pheophytin of bacterial origin]
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(biochemistry) Any pheophytin of bacterial origin
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(biochemistry) Any form of phytochrome found in a bacterium
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(biochemistry) Any of several related purple photosynthetic proteins, found in halobacteria, that act as proton pumps
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(dated) Synonym of bile pigment
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(biochemistry) A blue (or bluish) bile pigment found in gallstones and formed by oxidation of biliverdin or bilirubin.
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(biochemistry) A brownish-green pigment, derived from bilirubin, found in human gallstones and in old bile.
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(biochemistry) Any of a group of coloured conjugated protein, containing a bilin, that function as photoreceptors
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(biochemistry) A bile pigment that is a product of the breakdown of the heme portion of hemoglobin (which occurs within macrophages as they digest red blood cells), and which is responsible for the yellowish color seen in bruises. Extremely high levels of bilirubin may cause jaundice.
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Any of a group of boron-containing pigments present in Jurassic red alga
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(biochemistry) Any of a group of bacterial retinal proteins, related to rhodopsin, present in Chlamydomonas
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(biochemistry) Any water-soluble derivative of chlorophyll in which the central magnesium atom is replaced (often with copper), and a number of side-chains are converted into sodium salts.
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A bile pigment that is a breakdown product of hemoglobin
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(biology) The colouring matter of the blood in the living animal; haemoglobin.
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(biochemistry) Any of a family of photoreceptor proteins, related to phytochrome, found in the cyanobacteria
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(biochemistry) Alternative spelling of cyanocobalamin [(biochemistry) A synthetic form of vitamin B₁₂ (cobalamin).]
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Alternative form of cyanol [Any of several blue dyes.]
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(biochemistry) A polypeptide used as a nitrogen-store by cyanobacteria
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(botany) A blue pigment supposed by some to be one of the component parts of chlorophyll.
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(biochemistry) A usually red biochrome found in echinoids.
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A large oxygen-carrying protein related to chlorocruorin, and found in many annelids.
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An isomeric form of melanopsin
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(chemistry) a yellow azo dye formerly used as a food colouring
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(biochemistry) A class of protein found in mitochondria.
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(biochemistry) A form of rhodopsin present in Gloeobacter violaceus
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Alternative form of hemacyanin [(biochemistry) A substance found in the blood of the octopus, responsible for its blue colour.]
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(biochemistry) haematoin
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(British spelling) Alternative spelling of hematoxylin [(medicine, organic chemistry) A phenolic compound having the chemical formula C₁₆H₁₄O₆, used (most often in conjunction with eosin) to make dye for staining tissue samples; extracted from the heart of the bloodwood tree, Haematoxylum campechianum.]
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(biochemistry) A light-driven ion pump, specific to chloride ions, found in phylogenetically ancient archaea known as halobacteria.
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Any of a group of yellow to red carotenoid pigments present in some green algae
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(biochemistry) a blue copper-containing respiratory pigment (a metalloprotein) found in most molluscs, and some arthropods
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(biochemistry) The form of a plastocyanin containing a bound copper atom
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Obsolete form of hemerythrin. [(biochemistry) A respiratory pigment found in sipunculids, priapulids and brachiopods.]
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An isomer of rhodopsin formed when it absorbs light
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(biochemistry) A colourless substance which was hypothesised to be a precursor compound of chlorophyll.
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(biochemistry) A form of melanopsin containing the all-trans isomer of retinal
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Any of a group of mitochondrial iron transporters that are involved in heme biosynthesis
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(biochemistry) haemocyanin
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Alternative form of pheophytin [(biochemistry) A chlorophyll from which the central magnesium atom has been removed]
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(biochemistry) A non-photosynthetic pigment which is the degradation product of algal chlorophyll pigments. It is commonly formed during and after marine phytoplankton blooms.
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Alternative form of phaeopigment [(biochemistry) A non-photosynthetic pigment which is the degradation product of algal chlorophyll pigments. It is commonly formed during and after marine phytoplankton blooms.]
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A red dye used in the hematoxylin-phloxine-saffron stain ("HPS stain"), commonly employed in performing an eosinophil count by hemocytometer.
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(biochemistry) A photoreceptor pigment used for negative phototaxis in halobacteria
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Alternative form of phycobilin [(biochemistry) Any of a group of bilins (pigments derived from porphyrins) found in some photosynthetic algae; they are open-chain tetrapyrroles related to mammalian bile pigments.]
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(botany) A bluish-green pigment in certain blue-green algae.
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(biochemistry) A pigment from the light-harvesting phycobiliprotein family, along with allophycocyanin and phycoerythrin, an accessory pigment to chlorophyll.
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Alternative form of phycocyanin [(biochemistry) A pigment from the light-harvesting phycobiliprotein family, along with allophycocyanin and phycoerythrin, an accessory pigment to chlorophyll.]
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A blue phycobilin present in the phycobiliproteins allophycocyanin and phycocyanin, of which it is the terminal acceptor of energy.
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(biochemistry) A red, light-harvesting protein found in cyanobacteria, red algae and cryptomonads.
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Alternative form of phycoerythrin [(biochemistry) A red, light-harvesting protein found in cyanobacteria, red algae and cryptomonads.]
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(biochemistry) A phycobiliprotein involved in photosynthesis, notably in Cyanobacteria and red algae.
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Alternative form of phyllocyanin [(obsolete, organic chemistry) A blue pigment obtained by degradation of chlorophyll.]
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A bilin chromophore found in phytochrome
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(biochemistry) Any of a family of blue, copper-containing proteins present in many plants
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(biochemistry) A important copper-containing protein, involved in electron transfer
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(biochemistry) A sialoglycoprotein, one of the transmembrane sialomucins, thought to be the major constituent of the glycocalyx of podocytes.
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(biochemistry) Any of several fluorescent pigments that are converted to chlorophyll by photoconversion.
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A non-visual opsin present in some winged insects
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(biochemistry) The red pigment in the inner segments of the cones of the retina in animals.
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The compound pigment found in the red algae.
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A green pigment derived from hemoglobin.
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(organic chemistry) A form of hemochrome, that contains verdoheme instead of heme, that is an intermediate in the degradation of hemoglobin to yield the bile pigments
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Alternative spelling of zymome [(chemistry, obsolete) A glutinous substance, insoluble in alcohol, resembling legumin; later called vegetable fibrin, vegetable albumin, or gluten casein.]
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