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Polysome Purification from Soybean Symbiotic Nodules
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A possible new nucleoside diphosphatase from the cytosol of soybean and alfalfa nodules
R E Hunt1, J L Haynes, J R Cowles
1Department of Biology, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77004.
Plant Physiology
|April 1, 1977
Abstract:
Nucleoside diphosphatase activity has been found in the cytosol of soybean (Glycine max) and alfalfa (Medicago satavia) nodules. The enzyme differs from other diphosphatases in that it does not exhibit a strong preference for one nucleoside diphosphate over another. Very little, if any, diphosphatase activity was detected in root extracts of alfalfa and soybean seedlings.
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