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Chris Whitfield1, James H Naismith

  • 1Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada. cwhitfie@uoguelph.ca

Current Opinion in Structural Biology
|May 23, 2008
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