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Purification and Analysis of Human Saliva Lysozyme

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JOLLÈS1,2 has previously demonstrated that lysozymes isolated from different organs of the same animal (dog spleen and kidney; hen egg-white and lung) have qualitatively the same biological activity but differ by their amino-acid compositions and their chromatographic behaviour.

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PETIT, J., JOLLÈS, P. Purification and Analysis of Human Saliva Lysozyme. Nature 200, 168–169 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/200168a0

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