about 7 mp toward shorter wavelength, irrespective of association state. Complementary information was obtained from sedimentation experiments. Phycocyanin associates or dissociates reversibly to form monomer, trimec, or hexamer, to an extent dependent on conditions. Under identical conditions, the association tendency of deuteriophycocyanin was found to be several times less than that of protiophycocyanin.important substances by the use of fully deuterated compounds. Phycocyanin has been used as a model protein for the investigation of deuterium isotope effects on protein conformation (Berns et al., 1962(Berns et al., , 1963 Berns, 1963a,b;Hattori et al., 1965). In one of these studies, we (Berns et al., 1963) observed that phycocyanin does not obey Beer's law. Sedimentation behavior likewise suggested association behavior.