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Enzymic Oxidation of Proteins and the Enzymic Inactivation of Insulin

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THE important communication of Drs. Sizer, Brindley and Wagley1, at the First International Congress of Biochemistry held at Cambridge, the abstract of which I have only recently seen, makes it necessary for me to record that I have been working on almost identical lines. My results are in complete accordance with theirs.

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  1. Sizer, I. W., Brindley, C. O., and Wagley, P. F., Abstract of Communications, 1st Intern. Congr. Biochem., Cambridge, 1949, p. 361.

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KERTÉSZ, D. Enzymic Oxidation of Proteins and the Enzymic Inactivation of Insulin. Nature 165, 523–524 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1038/165523a0

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