What is the name of the enzyme that Ochoa discovered?
Pepsin
Lysozyme
Polynucleotide phosphorylase
Amylase
Answer
Ochoa discovered Polynucleotide phosphorylase, an enzyme that can synthesize RNA from nucleoside-5′-phosphates. Ochoa shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1959 with Arthur Kornberg for their discoveries concerning the mechanisms of the biological synthesis of RNA and DNA
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