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On the thermodynamic equilibrium between (R)-2-hydroxyacyl-CoA and 2-enoyl-CoA

Anutthaman Parthasarathy1, Wolfgang Buckel, David M Smith

  • 1Laboratory for Microbiology, Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany.

The FEBS Journal
|February 26, 2010
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