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| Decker, Carole; Zorn, N.; Le Bruchec, J.; Caprais, Jean-claude; Potier, N.; Leize-wagner, E.; Lallier, F. H.; Olu, Karine; Andersen, A. C.. |
| Vesicomyids live in endosymbiosis with sulfur-oxidizing bacteria and therefore need hydrogen sulfide to survive. They can nevertheless live in a wide range of sulfide and oxygen levels and depths, which may explain the exceptional diversity of this clam family in deep-sea habitats. In the Gulf of Guinea, nine species of vesicomyid clams are known to live in cold-seep areas with pockmarks from 600 to 3200 m deep, as well as in the organic-rich sediments of the Congo deep-sea fan at 5000 m deep. Our previous study showed that two species living in a giant pockmark have different oxygen carriers, suggesting different adaptations to hypoxia. Here, we studied the hemoglobin structure and oxygen affinity in three other species, Calyptogena valdiviae, Elenaconcha... |
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Palavras-chave: Hemoglobin; Mass spectrometry; Oxygen affinity; Symbiont-bearing bivalve; Blood-clams; Cold seeps; Sulfide-rich sediments. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00358/46961/46875.pdf |
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| Decker, Carole; Zorn, N.; Potier, N.; Leize-wagner, E.; Lallier, F.h.; Olu, Karine; Andersen, A. C.. |
| Vesicomyid bivalves form dense clam beds in both deep-sea cold seeps and hydrothermal vents. The species diversity within this family raises questions about niche separation and specific adaptations. To compare their abilities to withstand hypoxia, we have studied the structure and function of erythrocyte hemoglobin (Hb) and foot myoglobin (Mb) from two vesicomyid species, Christineconcha regab and Laubiericoncha chuni, collected from the Regab pockmark in the Gulf of Guinea at a depth of 3,000 m. Laubiericoncha chuni possesses three monomeric globins, G1 (15,361 Da), G2 (15,668 Da), and G3 (15,682 Da) in circulating erythrocytes (Hb), and also three globins, G1, G3, and G4 (14,786 Da) in foot muscle (Mb). Therefore, globins G2 and G4 appear to be specific... |
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| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00245/35602/34150.pdf |
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