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Yvonne Carius1, Michael Hutter2, Flora Kiss3

  • 1Department of Structural Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Center of Human and Molecular Biology (ZHMB), Saarland University, Homburg, Germany.

FEBS Letters
|September 23, 2022
PubMed

Keywords:
Cytochrome P450crystal structuredockingoxidoreductasesteroid conversion

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