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RECENTLY1, I found that, in silkworms, nitrites, nitrates and ammonium salts could be converted into oximes, and suggested that this insect might utilize inorganic nitrogenous salts as nutritive substances. I have now been able to demonstrate that in the silkworm body there exists an enzyme which catalyses the transformation of oximes to corresponding amino compounds.
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Yamafuji, K., Nature, 165, 651 (1950).
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YAMAFUJI, K. Existence of an Enzyme catalysing the Hydrogenation of Oximes in Silkworms. Nature 167, 770–771 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/167770b0
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