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IN a recent issue of Nature, Pauling and Corey1 have raised certain points in connexion with the 1.5-A. reflexion which I reported to be present in proteins of the α-keratin type, in an artificial poly-peptide and in hæmoglobin, and to be absent in feather rachis2. To their remarks I should like to make the following comments.
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PERUTZ, M. The 1.5-A. Reflexion from Proteins and Polypeptides. Nature 168, 653–654 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/168653a0
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