Purification and some properties of alan
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Nomura, Tetsuya ;Yamamoto, Isamu ;Morishita, Fumihiro ;Furukawa, Yasuo ;Matsushi
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Article
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2001
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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A brackish-water mollusc, Corbicula japonica, uses large quantities of D- and L-alanine as intracellular osmotically active solutes, osmolytes, for regulation of intracellular osmolarity. We purified alanine racemase from the mantle of C. japonica to characterize its enzymological properties. The mo