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Hot Biological Catalysis: Isothermal Titration Calorimetry to Characterize Enzymatic Reactions
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Published on: April 4, 2014

A computer program for deriving the rate equations of enzyme catalysed reactions with unbranched mechanisms

J Kinderlerer, S Ainsworth

    International Journal of Bio-Medical Computing
    |October 1, 1975
    PubMed

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