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Crystalline pepsin.

Publication Details

J. gen. Physiol., 13, 739-80. 1930 CE.

Crystallization of pepsin and its identity as a protein. 

In 1946 Northrop shared half of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Wendell Meredith Stanley "for their preparation of enzymes and virus proteins in a pure form." The other half was awarded to James Bathcellor Sumner "for his discovery that enzymes can be crystallized."

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Entry Number#1038.1
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External URLcrystalline-pepsin