Abstract
Three tissues or components of the squid — nerve, hepatopancreas and saliva — contain high levels of an enzyme that hydrolyzes the P-X bond of a group of compounds popularly termed nerve gases, where -X is fluoride or cyanide. The history of this particular enzyme has little to do with the squid. That came later.
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Hoskin, F.C.G. (1990). An Organophosphorus Detoxifying Enzyme Unique to Squid. In: Gilbert, D.L., Adelman, W.J., Arnold, J.M. (eds) Squid as Experimental Animals. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2489-6_21
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