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Dr. W. T. Astbury summarizes accumulating X-ray evidence for the belief that ultimately there will be found no real distinction between 'fibrous' and 'globular' proteins, and points out that the stoichio-metrical data of Bergmann and Niemann indicate the same thing. He shows how X-ray measurements can be used to supplement the Bergmann argument, and calculates a stoichiometrical distribution of amino acid residues and provisional molecular weight for keratin, which also appears to fit into the new scheme.
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Points from Foregoing Letters. Nature 140, 975 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/140975a0
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