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Determination of macromolecular folding and structure by synchrotron x-ray radiolysis techniques

S D Maleknia1, C Y Ralston, M D Brenowitz

  • 1Center for Synchrotron BioSciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461, USA.

Analytical Biochemistry
|February 13, 2001
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