Abstract
ALTHOUGH the role of pyridoxal phosphate as a coenzyme of amino-acid decarboxylases is generally recognized, attempts to demonstrate its participation in the enzymic decarboxylation of histidine have hitherto been unsuccessful.1
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ONO, S., HAGEN, P. Pyridoxal Phosphate: a Coenzyme for Histidine Decarboxylase. Nature 184, 1143–1144 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1841143a0
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