Spectrophotometric activity micro-assay for pure and recombinant cytochrome P450-type nitric oxide reductase Authors
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Authors Seike Garny, Jan Verschoor, Neil Gardiner and Justin Jordaan Emerging Health Technologies, Council for Science and Industrial Research in Pretoria, South Africa; Department of Biochemistry, University of Pretoria, South Africa. Short title Nitric oxide reductase activity assay Corresponding author Seike Garny at Molecular Biomaterials, CSIR Biosciences, P.O. Box 395, Pretoria, 0091, South Africa, [email protected], phone number: +27 12 841 3284, fax number: +2712 841 2615 Subject category Enzymatic assays and analyses
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