Sulfate radicals enable a non-enzymatic Krebs cycle precursor

Nature Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Keller, Markus A ^a,b   Kampjut, Domen ^a   Harrison, Stuart A ^a   Ralser, Markus ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^c THE FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85019788804     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2397334X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-017-0083     Document Type: Article

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