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UniProt functional annotation for P04254 | ||
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| UniProt code: P04254. |
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| Organism: | |
Panulirus interruptus (California spiny lobster) (Palinurus interruptus). |
| Taxonomy: | |
Eukaryota; Metazoa; Ecdysozoa; Arthropoda; Crustacea; Multicrustacea; Malacostraca; Eumalacostraca; Eucarida; Decapoda; Pleocyemata; Achelata; Palinuroidea; Palinuridae; Panulirus. |
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| Function: | |
Hemocyanins are copper-containing oxygen carriers occurring freely dissolved in the hemolymph of many mollusks and arthropods. |
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| Subunit: | |
Hexamer of a number of different chains, of which A, B, and C have been identified. |
| Subcellular location: | |
Secreted, extracellular space. |
| Tissue specificity: | |
Hemolymph. |
| Miscellaneous: | |
The A chain contains two copper-binding sites. Three histidine residues are ligands to each copper ion. |
| Similarity: | |
Belongs to the tyrosinase family. Hemocyanin subfamily. {ECO:0000305}. |
Annotations taken from UniProtKB at the EBI.