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Science 9 January 1970:
Vol. 167. no. 3915, pp. 192 - 193
DOI: 10.1126/science.167.3915.192
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Bile Pigment Formation in Plants

Robert F. Troxler 1, Anne Brown 2, Roger Lester 2, and Peter White 3

1 Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine
2 Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02118
3 Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia 19104

The unicellular alga Cyanidium caldarium evolves carbon monoxide during the syntheis of the bile pigment, phycocyanobilin. Carbon monoxide and phycocyanobilin were produced in stoichiometric amounts at comparable rates. Therefore, the mechanism of bile pigment formation in this plant parallels that in mammals.


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