Why are enzymes less active in organic solvents than in water?
- 1 March 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in Trends in Biotechnology
- Vol. 15 (3), 97-101
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0167-7799(97)01013-5
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