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Separation of Proteolytic Enzymes of Clostridium histolyticum

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PREVIOUS attempts to separate the proteolytic enzymes found in culture filtrates of Cl. histolyticum have been largely unsuccessful. Methods for preparing proteinase free of collagenolytic activity have been described1; but collagenase free of other proteolytic activity has never been obtained.

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    ROBERT DeBELLIS, INES MANDL, JOHN D. MacLENNAN & EDWARD L. HOWES

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DeBELLIS, R., MANDL, I., MacLENNAN, J. et al. Separation of Proteolytic Enzymes of Clostridium histolyticum . Nature 174, 1191–1192 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/1741191a0

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