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Enrichment of Bacterial Lipoproteins and Preparation of N-terminal Lipopeptides for Structural Determination by Mass Spectrometry
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Solution structure of the protein lipocalin 12 from rat epididymis
1Laboratory of Biomolecular NMR, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, People's Republic of China.
Proteins
|May 4, 2011
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