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Atomistic mechanism of protein denaturation by urea

Atanu Das1, Chaitali Mukhopadhyay

  • 1Department of Chemistry, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.

The Journal of Physical Chemistry. B
|June 12, 2008
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