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Hot Biological Catalysis: Isothermal Titration Calorimetry to Characterize Enzymatic Reactions
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Hot Biological Catalysis: Isothermal Titration Calorimetry to Characterize Enzymatic Reactions

Published on: April 4, 2014

Evaluation of optimum conditions of two-substrate enzyme reactions

H U Bergmeyer

    Journal of Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Biochemistry. Zeitschrift Fur Klinische Chemie Und Klinische Biochemie
    |August 1, 1977
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