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Conformational stability and warfarin-binding properties of human serum albumin studied by recombinant mutants

H Watanabe1, U Kragh-Hansen, S Tanase

  • 1Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University, 5-1 Oe-honmachi, Kumamoto 862-0973, Japan.

The Biochemical Journal
|June 21, 2001
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