Definition of haemocyanin in English:
haemocyanin
(US hemocyanin)
noun ˌhiːmə(ʊ)ˈsʌɪənɪnˌhēməˈsīənən
mass nounBiochemistry A protein containing copper, responsible for transporting oxygen in the blood plasma of arthropods and molluscs.
〔生化〕血蓝蛋白,血清蛋白
Example sentencesExamples
- The focus of this paper is on the Crustacea, the class of Arthropoda that expresses both hemoglobin and hemocyanin.
- It is intriguing that crustaceans seem to express either hemoglobin or hemocyanin but not both proteins.
- The ontogeny of crustacean hemocyanin, the copper-based oxygen transport protein, has been studied in relatively few species, including Nephrops norvegicus and Homarus americanus.
- Injection of bacteria had no influence on hemocyanin or hemolymph protein concentrations when compared to saline injection.
- One grasshopper embryo has a protein that closely resembles hemocyanin in sequence, but no oxygen binding studies to confirm its function have yet been done.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from haemo- 'of blood' + cyan + -in1.