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Analyzing Protein Architectures and Protein-Ligand Complexes by Integrative Structural Mass Spectrometry
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Binding constant determination of high-affinity protein-ligand complexes by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry

Arno Wortmann1, Matthias C Jecklin, David Touboul

  • 1Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

Journal of Mass Spectrometry : JMS
|December 13, 2007
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