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N A Komandrova1, S V Tomshich, L S Shevchenko

  • 1Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, 690022, Russia.

Biochemistry. Biokhimiia
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