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. 1953 Aug;39(8):772–779. doi: 10.1073/pnas.39.8.772

The Mechanism of Propionic Acid Formation by Succinate Decarboxylation

I. The Activation of Succinate

H R Whiteley 1,*
PMCID: PMC1063856  PMID: 16589332

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