Dark green plates or prisms with violet surface color
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Biliverdin (from the Latin for green bile) is a green tetrapyrrolic bile pigment, and is a product of heme catabolism.[1][2] It is the pigment responsible for a greenish color sometimes seen in bruises.[2]
^Boron W, Boulpaep E. Medical Physiology: a cellular and molecular approach, 2005. 984-986. Elsevier Saunders, United States. ISBN 1-4160-2328-3
^ abMosqueda, L; Burnight, K; Liao, S (2005). "The Life Cycle of Bruises in Older Adults". Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 53 (8): 1339–1343. doi:10.1111/j.1532-5415.2005.53406.x. PMID 16078959. S2CID 12394659.
Biliverdin (from the Latin for green bile) is a green tetrapyrrolic bile pigment, and is a product of heme catabolism. It is the pigment responsible for...
feces. The production of biliverdin from heme is the first major step in the catabolic pathway, after which the enzyme biliverdin reductase performs the...
Biliverdin reductase (BVR) is an enzyme (EC 1.3.1.24) found in all tissues under normal conditions, but especially in reticulo-macrophages of the liver...
as HO) is an enzyme that catalyzes the degradation of heme to produce biliverdin, ferrous iron, and carbon monoxide. There are many heme degrading enzymes...
exert its damaging effects. In the second reaction, biliverdin is converted to bilirubin by biliverdin reductase (BVR): Bilirubin is transported into the...
the shade of the eggs laid by the American robin. The egg pigment is biliverdin, a product of the breakdown of heme. The first recorded use of robin egg...
digested ferritin and lysosomes. The breakdown of heme gives rise to biliverdin and iron. The body then traps the released iron and stores it as hemosiderin...
oxygenase and results in biliverdin (green color pigment), iron, and carbon monoxide. The next step is the reduction of biliverdin to a yellow color tetrapyrrole...
Biliverdin reductase B is a protein that in humans is encoded by the BLVRB gene. The BLVRB gene was localized to chromosome 19, the specific region being...
Macrophages break down senescent erythrocytes and break the heme down into biliverdin, which rapidly reduces to free bilirubin. Bilirubin binds tightly to plasma...
caused by an excess buildup of the bile pigment biliverdin. Prasinohaema species have plasma biliverdin concentrations approximately 1.5-30 times greater...
Biliverdin reductase A is a protein that in humans is encoded by the BLVRA gene. The protein encoded by this gene belongs to the biliverdin reductase...
systematic name (3Z)-phycoerythrobilin:ferredoxin oxidoreductase (from biliverdin IX alpha). This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction (3Z)-phycoerythrobilin...
degradation of hemoglobin to biliverdin to bilirubin to hemosiderin, with hemoglobin itself producing a red-blue color, biliverdin producing a green color...
generated from the degradation of heme, which is first degraded through biliverdin to bilirubin. Bilirubin is then excreted as bile, which is further degraded...
to biliverdin and well as carbon monoxide that is exhaled. Biliverdin is then converted to bilirubin with biliverdin reductase. As high biliverdin levels...
chromophore (biliverdin) within cells. Addition of biliverdin increased fluorescence, but smURFP with biliverdin was not comparable to eGFP. Biliverdin has two...
constituent of hemoglobin are broken down into iron (Fe3+) and biliverdin. The biliverdin is reduced to bilirubin, which is released into the plasma and...
cleaves heme to form biliverdin, carbon monoxide, and ferrous iron. The biliverdin is subsequently converted to bilirubin by biliverdin reductase. Heme oxygenase...
of skinks whose blood color is caused by an excess of the bile pigment biliverdin Prasinohaema virens, also known as the green-blooded skink, native to...
fields. Substances that may impart a greenish hue to one's skin include biliverdin, the green pigment in bile, and ceruloplasmin, a protein that carries...
flesh.p. 298 The colour, which is destroyed by cooking, may be due to biliverdin, but this has not been established beyond doubt. Lingcod are endemic to...
bilirubin, biliverdin) Phycobilins (found in cyanobacteria) Luciferins as found in dinoflagellates and euphausiid shrimps (krill) Bilirubin Biliverdin Phycoerythrobilin...
grilled, or smoked. They have unusual green bones (due to the presence of biliverdin) which discourages many people from eating them, but the green colour...
Prasinohaema have green blood because of a buildup of the waste product biliverdin. The word skink, which entered the English language around 1580–1590,...
colour comes from pigments deposited on top of the calcium carbonate base; biliverdin and its zinc chelate, and bilirubin, give a green or blue ground colour...
catalyzing the biotransformation of heme (an iron protoporphyrin) into biliverdin and eventually bilirubin. Aside from physiological signaling, most carbon...
which give human blood its red color. Heme is degraded by the body into biliverdin (which gives bruises their blue-green color), which in turn is degraded...
is not seasonal. This fish has green blood plasma, the color caused by biliverdin tightly bound in protein complexes. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds...
Tzu-Ruei Yang et al revealed the eggs preserved the blue-green pigment biliverdin and the reddish-brown pigment protoporphyrin, the same pigments found...
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