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Makiko Nakayama-Hamada1, Akari Suzuki, Hidehiko Furukawa

  • 1Daiichi-Sankyo Co., Ltd., Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140-8710, Japan.

Journal of Biochemistry
|June 28, 2008
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