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BECAUSE the enzyme named ‘aconitase’1 catalyses the conversion of cis-aconitate both to citrate and to isocitrate (and the reverse reactions), it has been thought2 that it may be a mixture of two enzymes, though Buchanan and Anfinsen3 found no evidence of this.
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OGSTON, A. Specificity of the Enzyme Aconitase. Nature 167, 693 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/167693a0
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