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Coupled Assays for Monitoring Protein Refolding in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
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Camilo Aponte-Santamaría1,2,3, Gerhard Fischer4,5, Petra Båth5
1Molecular Biomechanics Group, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, Germany. ca.aponte@uniandes.edu.co.
Scientific Reports
|December 7, 2017
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