Proton, calcium, and magnesium binding by peptides containing gamma-carboxyglutamic acid

S E Cabaniss1, K C Pugh, L G Pedersen

  • 1Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

International Journal of Peptide and Protein Research
|January 1, 1991
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