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Ichiro Yamato1, Yoshimi Kakinuma2, Takeshi Murata3

  • 1Department of Biological Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo 125-8585, Japan.

Biophysics and Physicobiology
|December 8, 2016
PubMed

Keywords:
ATPCrystal structureF-ATPaseV-ATPasemolecular mechanism

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