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Residue-specific Incorporation of Noncanonical Amino Acids into Model Proteins Using an Escherichia coli Cell-free Transcription-translation System
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Identification of surface residues in the trp repressor of Escherichia coli

A N Lane, O Jardetzky

    European Journal of Biochemistry
    |October 15, 1985
    PubMed

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