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Operational stability of copolymerized enzymes at elevated temperatures

V V Mozhaev1, V A Siksnis, V P Torchilin

  • 1Department of Chemistry Moscow State University, Moscow, 117 234, USSR.

Biotechnology and Bioengineering
|August 1, 1983
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