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The conformations of hirudin in solution: a study using nuclear magnetic resonance, distance geometry and restrained

G M Clore1, D K Sukumaran, M Nilges

  • 1Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, D-8033 Martinsried bei München, FRG.

The EMBO Journal
|February 1, 1987
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