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Polyphenol oxidase in chloroform was shown to have increased catalytic
efficiency, and to transform sterically more demanding substrates, in
the presence of SDS, compared with its absence. The limited protein f
lexibility due to chloroform were apparently altered by the SDS, with
little loss of activity.