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The stereospecificity of nitrate reductase for hydrogen removal from reduced pyridine nucleotides

M G Guerrero, K Jetschmann, W Völker

    Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta
    |May 12, 1977
    PubMed

    Keywords:
    nitrate reductasehydrogen abstractionstereospecificityenzyme mechanism

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