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ORDINARY aqueous or potassium chloride extracts of muscle exhibit but a slight capacity to mineralize adenosinetriphosphate. Even this slight liberation of phosphate is mainly due, not to direct hydrolysis of adenosinetriphosphate, but to a process of secondary, indirect mineralization, accompanying the transfer of phosphate from the adenylic system to creatine, the corresponding enzymes (for which the name ‘phosphopherases’ is suggested) being readily soluble.
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ENGELHARDT, W., LJUBIMOWA, M. Myosine and Adenosinetriphosphatase. Nature 144, 668–669 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144668b0
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