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Structure-function correlation of outer membrane protein porin from Paracoccus denitrificans

S Sukumaran1, K Hauser, E Maier

  • 1Institut für Biophysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Max von Laue-Strasse 1, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Biopolymers
|December 14, 2005
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