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Defining Substrate Specificities for Lipase and Phospholipase Candidates
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Published on: November 23, 2016

Uwe T Bornscheuer1, Cornelius Bessler, Ramisetti Srinivas

  • 1Institute of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Department of Technical Chemistry & Biotechnology, Greifswald University, Soldmannstr. 16, D-17487 Greifswald, Germany. uwe.bornscheuer@uni-griefswald.de

Trends in Biotechnology
|September 11, 2002
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