Superoxide dismutase: a contaminant of bovine catalase (Short Communication)
- 1 October 1973
- journal article
- Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Biochemical Journal
- Vol. 135 (2) , 379-381
- https://doi.org/10.1042/bj1350379
Abstract
Some commercial samples of bovine catalase contain superoxide dismutase activity. Therefore the inhibition of a reaction on the addition of a catalase preparation need not necessarily mean that H2O2 is responsible for the reaction.Keywords
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