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M Linder1, K Selber, T Nakari-Setälä

  • 1VTT Biotechnology, P.O.Box 1500, FIN-02044 VTT, Finland; and Institute für Enzymtechnologie der Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Forschungszentrum Jülich, D-52426 Jülich, Germany. markus.linder@vtt.fi

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