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P Georgi-Geisberger1, H Hoffmann-Berling

  • 1Max-Planck-Institut für Medizinische Forschung, Abteilung Molekulare Biologie, Heidelberg, Federal Republic of Germany.

European Journal of Biochemistry
|September 24, 1990
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