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IN order to provide a test of the different mechanisms proposed for the alkaline degradation of disulphide groups in proteins, the amino-acid α,α′-dimethylcystine (I) has been synthesized and examined: 
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SWAN, J. Mechanism of Alkaline Degradation of Cystine Residues in Proteins. Nature 179, 965 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/179965a0
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