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  • 1Department of Biotechnology, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, Uttar Pradesh,India.

Protein and Peptide Letters
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Human serum albuminX-ray diffractioncalcium oxalate monohydrate crystalscrystallizationfourier-transform infrared spectroscopy.molecular docking

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