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Cell-free benzo[a]pyrene hydroxylase activity in marine zooplankton

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

J. M. Walters ,
R. B. Cain ,
I. J. Higgins  and
E. D. S. Corner
J. M. Walters
Affiliation:
Biological Laboratory, The University, Canterbury, Kent
R. B. Cain
Affiliation:
Biological Laboratory, The University, Canterbury, Kent
I. J. Higgins
Affiliation:
Biological Laboratory, The University, Canterbury, Kent
E. D. S. Corner
Affiliation:
The Laboratory, Marine Biological Association, Citadel Hill, Plymouth
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There is now considerable evidence that benzo[a]pyrene hydroxylase (aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase: AHH) is involved in the metabolism of petroleum hydrocarbons by several species of marine fish (see review by Varanasi & Malins, 1977), as well as by certain species of marine invertebrates, including crabs and lobsters (Payne, 1977). Several workers (Payne & Penrose, 1975; Payne, 1976, 1977; Bend, James & Dansette, 1977) have found increased activities of this enzyme in fish previously exposed to petroleum hydrocarbons and related compounds: similar findings have been made in a study using two species of polychaete (Lee, Furlong & Singer, 1977 a). No evidence of such enhanced activity, however, has been found in experiments with crabs and lobsters (Payne, 1977).

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 59 , Issue 3 , August 1979 , pp. 553 - 563
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1979

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