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Catherine B Poor1, Mary C Andorfer, Jared C Lewis

  • 1Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, 5735 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL 60637 (USA).

Chembiochem : a European Journal of Chemical Biology
|May 23, 2014
PubMed

Keywords:
RebHbiocatalysisdirected evolutionhalogenasesthermostability

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