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Doudoroff, Barker and Hassid1 showed that the addition of arsenate to sucrose phosphorylase from Pseudomonas saccharophila catalyses the decomposition of sucrose to glucose and fructose, the reaction being :
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KATZ, J., HASSID, W. & DOUDOROFF, M. Arsenolysis and Phosphorolysis of the Amylose and Amylopectin Fractions of Starch. Nature 161, 96 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161096a0
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