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Preparation of Quality Inositol Pyrophosphates
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Myo-inositol-1-phosphate synthase from streptomyces griseus (studies on the biosynthesis of cyclitols, XXXVIII)

F Pittner, I I Tovarova, E Y Kornitskaya

    Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
    |May 6, 1979
    PubMed

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