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Crystallizing Membrane Proteins for Structure Determination using Lipidic Mesophases
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Crystallizing Membrane Proteins for Structure Determination using Lipidic Mesophases

Published on: November 21, 2010

N V Narizhneva1, V N Uversky

  • 1Institute of Protein Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow Region, 142292 Russia.

Biochemistry. Biokhimiia
|April 29, 1998
PubMed

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