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Published on: March 15, 2012

[Isolation and characterization of an acetylester-hydrolase from Aspergillus niger (author's transl)]

B Schöbel, W Pollmann

    Zeitschrift Fur Naturforschung. Section C, Biosciences
    |September 1, 1980
    PubMed

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