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Bio-layer Interferometry for Measuring Kinetics of Protein-protein Interactions and Allosteric Ligand Effects
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Bio-layer Interferometry for Measuring Kinetics of Protein-protein Interactions and Allosteric Ligand Effects

Published on: February 18, 2014

J A Zivin, D R Waud

    Life Sciences
    |April 26, 1982
    PubMed

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