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Sakaguchi and Murao1 reported on the presence of an enzyme in the mycelium of Penicillium chrysogenum and Aspergillus oryzae which would split penicillin G (I) into phenylacetic acid (II) and ‘penicin’ (III) :
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CLARIDGE, C., GOUREVITCH, A. & LEIN, J. Bacterial Penicillin Amidase. Nature 187, 237–238 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/187237a0
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