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Enzymatic Formation of Aminomalonic Acid from Ketomalonic Acid

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RECENT work in this laboratory demonstrated the occurrence of a new enzyme, aminomalonic acid decarboxylase, in the posterior silk-gland of silkworm and in rat liver1. The fact that this enzyme was first observed in silkworm, which has a remarkably high activity of glycine synthesis2, seems to suggest a physiological significance of the enzyme in the biosynthesis of glycine, although natural occurrence of this amino-acid has hitherto not been reported.

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  1. Laboratory of Biochemistry, Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Tohoku University, Sendai

    HIDEO NAGAYAMA, MICHIKO MURAMATSU & KENSUKE SHIMURA

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NAGAYAMA, H., MURAMATSU, M. & SHIMURA, K. Enzymatic Formation of Aminomalonic Acid from Ketomalonic Acid. Nature 181, 417–418 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/181417a0

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