| This finding implied that the mutants are defective in heme-oxygenase, an enzyme that converts heme into biliverdin. |
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| This produces one molecule of biliverdin and one molecule of carbon monoxide. |
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| Her jaundiced skin now shimmered with a light green hue from biliverdin. |
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| Destruction of these cells releases haem from their haemoglobin, which is quickly metabolized in the liver to biliverdin and, in turn, to bilirubin. |
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| The color is because of the pigment biliverdin, which has antioxidant qualities. |
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| A physiological peculiarity of some marine atheriniforms, garfishes and needlefishes, is a bright green coloration of the bones and even the flesh, due to retention of a bile pigment, biliverdin. |
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| It is made by enzymes breaking down the red haem molecule into green biliverdin and yellow bilirubin molecules. |
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| Heme oxygenase degrades the heme to release iron, carbon monoxide, and biliverdin, and the latter is reduced to bilirubin. |
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| Natural bacterial phytochrome photoreceptors utilize low molecular weight biliverdin as a chromophore and provide many advantages over other chromophore binding proteins. |
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