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Methionine-activating Enzyme and Catechol-O-methyl Transferase Activity in Normal and Leukaemic White Blood Cells

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IT has been found recently in these laboratories that the leucocytes of patients with chronic myelocytic leukaemia have significant elevations of the important methyl donor, S-adenosylmethionine (SAMe) (ref. 1).

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    ROSS J. BALDESSARINI

  2. National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

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BALDESSARINI, R., BELL, W. Methionine-activating Enzyme and Catechol-O-methyl Transferase Activity in Normal and Leukaemic White Blood Cells. Nature 209, 78–79 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/209078a0

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