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A presença da Galactoquinase em Tecidos Animais

The author relates experimental work which lead him to conclude for the presence of galactokinase in animal tissues, explaining in this way that the first step of the galactose intermediary metabolism is its esterification, in the presence of ATP and the enzyme in question, activated by magnesium to galactose-1-phosphate.

Galactokinase; galactose metabolism; animal tissues; galactose-1-phosphate


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