Abstract:Few bacterial enzymes have been the subject of as much contention with regard to cofactor requirements as has aspartase. Since Gale's (1938) proposal of the two aspartases, it has become increasingly clear that much of the difficulty has arisen from the extrapolation of resting cell effects, based on ammonia data, to
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