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Zhanar Abil1, Xiong Xiong, Huimin Zhao

  • 1Department of Biochemistry, ‡Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and §Department of Bioengineering, Department of Chemistry, Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology and Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , 600 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.

Molecular Pharmaceutics
|August 8, 2014
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