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Expression and Purification of Nuclease-Free Oxygen Scavenger Protocatechuate 3,4-Dioxygenase
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Electrolytic univalent reduction of oxygen in aqueous solution demonstrated with superoxide dismutase

H J Forman, I Fridovich

    Science (New York, N.Y.)
    |January 21, 1972
    PubMed

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