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Atsushi Mukaiyama1, Kazufumi Takano2,3

  • 1Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, 5-1 Higashiyama, Myodaiji, Okazaki 444-8787, Japan.

International Journal of Molecular Sciences
|April 29, 2009
PubMed

Keywords:
Proteins from hyperthermophilesequilibrium and kineticfolding/unfoldingstability

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