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Mass Spectrometric Approaches to Study Protein Structure and Interactions in Lyophilized Powders
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Mass Spectrometric Approaches to Study Protein Structure and Interactions in Lyophilized Powders

Published on: April 14, 2015

A study of the catalase monomer produced by lyophilization

S P Sichak, A L Dounce

    Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta
    |September 11, 1987
    PubMed

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