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Biological Procedures Online

, Volume 1, Issue 1, pp 27–31 | Cite as

Methods for the detection of d-amino-acid oxidase

  • Ryuichi Konno
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Abstract

Four methods (an enzyme activity assay, western blotting, RT-PCR, and northern hybridization) to detect the enzyme D-amino-acid oxidase are described.

Keywords

Oxidase Activity Crucian Carp Northern Hybridization Tissue Culture Cell Biological Procedure 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Department of MicrobiologyDokkyo University School of MedicineMibu, TochigiJapan

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