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Chemical synthesis and biological function of lipidated proteins

Aimin Yang1, Lei Zhao, Yao-Wen Wu

  • 1Chemical Genomics Centre of the Max Planck Society, Otto-Hahn-Str. 15, 44227, Dortmund, Germany.

Topics in Current Chemistry
|December 4, 2014
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