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Active-site titration of horse urinary kallikrein

C A Sampaio, M U Sampaio, E S Prado

    Hoppe-Seyler'S Zeitschrift Fur Physiologische Chemie
    |March 1, 1984
    PubMed

    Keywords:
    enzyme kineticskallikrein activityreagent affinityacetylation rates

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