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A PREVIOUS communication1 described the preparation of two crystalline hæmoproteins (556) and (566), which possess strong peroxidatic activity. It was found in later investigations2 that both hæmoproteins form complexes with hydrogen peroxide and are not reduced with diphosphopyridine nucleotide or succinate in the presence of an active homogenate or particles from wheat germ. This indicates that both hæmoproteins (556) and (566) are peroxidases and thus can be called peroxidase (556) and (566), respectively.
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TAGAWA, K., SHIN, M. & OKUNUKI, K. Peroxidases from Wheat Germ. Nature 183, 111 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/183111a0
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