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Karin Haiser1, Benjamin P Fingerhut, Korbinian Heil

  • 1Faculty of Physics, Center for Integrative Protein Science, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Oettingenstrasse 67, 80538 Munich, Germany.

Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|November 24, 2011
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