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WHEN fasting and ready to spin their cocoons, five silkworms were each injected with 112 µgm. (2.1 µc.) of glycine-l-14C.
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BRICTEUX-GRÉGOIRE, S., VERLY, W. & FLORKIN, M. Utilization of the Carboxyl Group of Glycine for the Synthesis of the Amino-Acids of Silk by Bombyx mori . Nature 182, 1515 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1821515a0
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