... Zhang2 and Tadashi Yoshida21Department of Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Yamaguchi University, Japan;2Department of Biochemistry,Yamagata University School of Medicine, Japan An ... groups of chlorophyll and phycobilin.Chlorophyll, which is contained in all plants includingcyanobacteria and protoflorideophyceae, is synthesized from protoporphyrin IX, a precursor of heme. Phycobilins of ... enhanced and new peaksTable 2. g-Values and g-anisotropy of alkaline forms of heme–heme oxygenase complexes. Data for Hmu O and rat HO-1 are taken from refs [24] and [14], respectively. g-Anisotropy...