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Direct Detection of the Acetate-forming Activity of the Enzyme Acetate Kinase
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Direct Detection of the Acetate-forming Activity of the Enzyme Acetate Kinase

Published on: December 19, 2011

Substrate specificity of an alpha-amino acid ester hydrolase produced by Acetobacter turbidans A.T.C.C. 9325

T Takahashi, Y Yamazaki, K Kato

    The Biochemical Journal
    |March 1, 1974
    PubMed

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