Application of Isoelectric Focusing in Thin-Layer Polyacrylamide Gels to the Study of Opine Dehydrogenases in Marine Invertebrates

Fisheries Science

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 122-125

  Kanno, Nobuhiro ^a   Kamimura, Kunihide ^a   Nagahisa, Eizou ^a   Sato, Minoru ^b   Sato, Yoshikazu ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Distribution; Isoelectric focusing; Multiple enzyme forms; Opine; Opine dehydrogenase; Substrate specificity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346179176     PISSN: 09199268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2331/fishsci.62.122     Document Type: Article

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