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WHILE the role of hyaluronidase seems to be understood from the biological point of view, there is little information about the constitution and chemical properties of this enzyme; this is due, indeed, to the great difficulty in preparing and purifying the enzymic fraction from the ‘mucopolysaccharase complex’. Even in the Hahn1 procedure, which gives highly active preparations, the so-called purified material is not at all homogeneous as judged by its behaviour in the electrophoresis apparatus and in the ultracentrifuge.
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CAPUTO, A. Electrophoretic Behaviour of Hyaluronidase. Nature 173, 358–359 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/173358b0
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