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Crystallization and In Situ Room Temperature Data Collection Using the Crystallization Facility at Harwell and Beamline VMXi, Diamond Light Source
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Crystal structure of chemically synthesized vMIP-II
Ying Li1, Dongxiang Liu, Rong Cao
1Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA.
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|January 24, 2007
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