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By enzymic reactions using and generating asymmetrically labelled acetic acids, it is shown that R and S citrate synthases, citrate lyase and ATP citrate lyase all produce inversion of configuration at the methyl group when citrate is synthesized, or at the methylene group where citrate is cleaved.
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EGGERER, H., BUCKEL, W., LENZ, H. et al. Stereochemistry of Enzymic Citrate Synthesis and Cleavage. Nature 226, 517–519 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/226517a0
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