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Computer-assisted modeling of subtilisin enantioselectivity in organic solvents

P A Fitzpatrick1, D Ringe, A M Klibanov

  • 1Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.

Biotechnology and Bioengineering
|September 1, 1992
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