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Peptide-based Identification of Functional Motifs and their Binding Partners
Published on: June 30, 2013
Synthesis of an IGD peptidomimetic with motogenic activity
Natalia Shpiro1, Ian R Ellis, Trevor J Dines
1Division of Biological Chemistry and Mol. Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK.
Molecular Biosystems
|August 2, 2006
Abstract:
Rational design and synthesis of an IGD peptidomimetic substrate with significant motogenic activity.
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