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Sigma's Non-specific Protease Activity Assay - Casein as a Substrate
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Sigma's Non-specific Protease Activity Assay - Casein as a Substrate

Published on: September 17, 2008

Plasmin-mediated proteolysis of casein in bovine milk

W N Eigel, C J Hofmann, B A Chibber

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
    |May 1, 1979
    PubMed

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