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= Atropine =
IntroductionIntroduction
Atropine is an alkaloid drug derived from levohyscocyamine, a plant compound found in the family Solanaceae[1]. Although it is poisonous, it is used widely in both human and veterinary medicine.
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FunctionFunction
Atropine has several different medicinal functions. Because it binds to acetylcholine receptors,
HistoryHistory
Lysozyme and its antibacterial properties were first noticed by Laschtschenko in 1909, and then was officially named lysozyme by Alexander Fleming, the same person credited for the accidental discovery of penicillin. The three dimensional structure of lysozyme was then discovered using x-ray crystallography by David Chilton Phillips. It was only the second protein structure and the first enzyme to ever by solved by x-ray crystallography, with the first being myoglobin. In addition to being the first enzyme structure solved by x-ray crystallography, it was also the first to have its full enzymatic mechanism proposed.
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