stellacyaninn.
/stɛləˈsʌɪənɪn/ Biochemistry.
An intensely blue copper-containing protein found in the latex of the Japanese lac tree, Rhus vernicifera.
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1966 W. G. Levine in J. Peisach et al. Biochem. of Copper 377 Omura,..in the course of purifying Rhus laccase.., separated a second, blue, copper protein which Peisach later named stellacyanin.
1967 J. Peisach et al. in Biochem. Jrnl. CCXLII. 2857/2 The authors would like to thank..Dr. Tsuneo Omura, whose permission was kindly given to name stellacyanin after Mrs. Estelle Peisach.
1976 Nature 27 May 346/1 Stellacyanin..and umecyanin have about 110 and 130 amino acids with a single cysteine residue plus one disulphide bridge.
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