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THE sulphur-containing tripeptid glutathione was originally obtained by Hopkins (Biochem. Jour., 15, 286; 1921) as a slightly impure non-crystalline powder. Hopkins has now succeeded in obtaining the substance in a pure crystalline form (NATURE, Sept. 21, p. 445). On repeating with this pure glutathione the experiments of Hopkins and Dixon (Jour. Biol. Chem., 54, 527; 1922) and of Hopkins (Biochem. Jour., 19, 787; 1925) on the oxidation of tissue proteins, we have found differences in behaviour which must have an important bearing on the glutathione problem.
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DIXON, M., MELDRUM, N. A Crystalline Tripeptid from Living Cells. Nature 124, 512 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124512b0
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