“…Studies with deuterium-labeled succinate have shown that dideuteriosuccinate is more slowly oxidized by the dehydrogenase from animal tissues than is normal succinate (96,97). Further, deuteriosuccinate exchanges deuterium with Ha0 in the presence of the enzyme and h the absence of external electron acceptors, as does normal succinate in DnO (98,99), but reports in the literature on the rates of these exchange reactions, compared with the rate of succinate oxidation, are at variance with each other (98,99).…”