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Claudia A McDonald1, Bruce A Palfey

  • 1Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical School, 1150 West Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0606, United States.

Biochemistry
|March 16, 2011
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