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Blood cell protein found in sea organisms
Sea squirt (Didemnum molle) off Sulawesi, Indonesia

Hemovanadin is a pale green vanabin protein found in the blood cells, called vanadocytes, of ascidians (sea squirts) and other organisms (particularly sea organisms). It is one of the few known vanadium-containing proteins. The German chemist Martin Henze first detected vanadium in ascidians (sea squirts) in 1911. Unlike hemocyanin and hemoglobin, hemovanadin is not an oxygen carrier.

References

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  4. Henze M (1911). "Untersuchungen über das Blut der Ascidien. 1. Mitteilung. Die Vanadiumverbindung der Blutkörperchen" [Studies on the blood of sea squirts. I. Communication. The vanadium compound of the blood cells]. Biological Chemistry (in German). 72 (5–6): 494–501. doi:10.1515/bchm2.1911.72.5-6.494.
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