Liver catalase

Abstract

Stem [1935-6] isolated biliverdin (dehydrobilirubin) from the split products of horse liver catalase; the pigment was identified by Lemberg [cf. Lemberg & Wyndham, 1936-7]. Biliverdin was not present in the catalase preparation as such, but as a bile pigment haem compound bound to a protein similar to or identical with that characteristic of catalase [ Lemberg & Wyndham, 1936-7]. After reduction