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Catalytic Mechanism of Cytochrome Oxidase

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Kinetic experiments in a stopped-flow appartus provide evidence for multi-electron steps in the reduction of oxygen

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  1. Centre di Biologia Molecolare del CNR and Istituto di Chimica Biologica, Università di Roma, I-00185, Roma

    ERALDO ANTONINI & MAURIZIO BRUNORI

  2. School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NOR 88C, Norfolk

    COLIN GREENWOOD

  3. Department of Biochemistry, University of Göteborg and Chalmers Institute of Technology, Fack, S-402 20, Göteborg, 5

    BO G. MALMSTRÖM

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ANTONINI, E., BRUNORI, M., GREENWOOD, C. et al. Catalytic Mechanism of Cytochrome Oxidase. Nature 228, 936–937 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/228936a0

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