Vanadium biochemistry: The unknown role of vanadium-containing cells in ascidians (sea squirts)
- 1 May 1989
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
- Vol. 45 (5), 452-457
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01952027
Abstract
This article reviews several new developments in vanadium biochemistry, as elucidated from studies of ascidians. A hypothesis correlating ascidian blood cell function to anaerobiosis, via two prominent redox constituents, namely vanadium(III) and the tunichromes, a family of metal ion complexing/reducing hydroquinonoid peptides, is presented.Keywords
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