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SILVERMAN et al. 1, working with refined enzyme systems from hog liver, found indications that folinic acid functions directly only in the formylation of glutamate, with N-formylglutamic acid and tetra-hydrofolic acid as the products. This communication reports the occurrence of a similar transformation in cell-free systems prepared from plant tissues.
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BYERS, E., BOND, T. Enzymatic Synthesis of Formylglutamic Acid by a Plant Protein. Nature 187, 416–417 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/187416a0
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