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Solution structure of the C-terminal NP-repeat domain of Tic40, a co-chaperone during protein import into

Yi-Fen Kao1, Yuan-Chao Lou, Yi-Hung Yeh

  • 1Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan.

Journal of Biochemistry
|August 14, 2012
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