Saturday, November 7, 2009
what does biliverdin get converted to??
Answers:
biliverdin breaks down to bilirubin1. green bile pigment: a greenish bile pigment that is an intermediate product of the breakdown of hemoglobin in the liver and in turn breaks down to produce bilirubin (http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/d.2 The resulting biliverdin is then reduced to bilirubin, a yellow pigment, by the enzyme biliverdin reductase. The changing color of a bruise from deep purple to yellow over time is a graphical indicator of this reaction.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/biliverdin).
It is a green pigment occuring in bile.
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