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Changes in secondary structures and acidic side chains of melibiose permease upon cosubstrates binding

Xavier León1, Raymonde Lemonnier, Gérard Leblanc

  • 1Unitat de Biofísica, Departament de Bioquímica i de Biologia Molecular, Facultat de Medicina, and Centre d'Estudis en Biofísica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

Biophysical Journal
|October 3, 2006
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