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RECENT work on kephalin by Folch and co-workers1–4 has made it clear that the classical view of its simple relationship to lecithin indicated by (I) and (II) requires very considerable modification. 
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HUTT, H., MALKIN, T., POOLE, A. et al. Structure of Kephalin: Presence of Serine and a Disaccharide in Groundnut Kephalin. Nature 165, 314–315 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1038/165314b0
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