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induced oxygen uptake is the result of a nonenzymatic process. De- 

 tails of the material presented in this paper will be described else- 

 where. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



This research was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation 

 (G-19453) and the U. S. Public Health Service (GM-8565). 



Dr. Morita is on leave of absence from the Department of Biophysics and 

 Biochemistry, University of Tokyo, Toyko, Japan. 



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