Chaperonins – keeping a lid on folding proteins
✍ Scribed by Andrew R Kusmierczyk; Jörg Martin
- Book ID
- 117103369
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 212 KB
- Volume
- 505
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0014-5793
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