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Sallie A Ruskoski1, James W Bullard, Franklin R Champlin

  • 1Departments of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, 1111 West 17th Street, Tulsa, OK, 74107, USA, ruskosks@nsuok.edu.

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