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Exploring the Arginine Methylome by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
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SERS and theoretical studies of arginine

A E Aliaga1, C Garrido, P Leyton

  • 1Laboratorio de Espectroscopia Vibracional, Universidad de Chile, PO Box 653, Las Palmeras 3425, Santiago, Chile.

Spectrochimica Acta. Part A, Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy
|May 18, 2010
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