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Reduction of disulfide bonds in inactivated swine pepsin

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By the determination of (carboxymethyl)cysteine in the hydrolyzate of reduced and carboxymethylated pepsin and by the titration of SH groups in reduced pepsin with p-(chloromercuri)benzoate, it was shown that reduced pepsin contains six cysteine mercapto groups.

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  1. Institute for the Chemistry of Natural Products, Academy of Sciences, USSR

    E. D. Levin, Ts. A. Egorov & V. M. Stepanov

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  1. E. D. Levin
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 5, pp. 825–829, May, 1965 Original article submitted August 28, 1964

This article is published in accordance with a resolution of the Conference of Chief Editors of Journals of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR of June 12, 1962, as a dissertation paper by E. D. Levin.

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Levin, E.D., Egorov, T.A. & Stepanov, V.M. Reduction of disulfide bonds in inactivated swine pepsin. Russ Chem Bull 14, 802–805 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00845691

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