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Light-driven Enzymatic Decarboxylation
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Published on: May 22, 2016

Stereochemistry of reactions catalyzed by glutamate decarboxylase

H Yamada, M H O'Leary

    Biochemistry
    |February 21, 1978
    PubMed

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