The sensitivity of isoelectric focusing and electrophoresis in the detection of sequence differences in proteins

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Electrophoretic Separation of Proteins
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Electrophoretic Separation of Proteins

Published on: June 12, 2008

T McLellan, L S Inouye

    Biochemical Genetics
    |August 1, 1986
    PubMed

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