Contribution of Electrostatic Interactions to Protein Folding Reaction
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1017-2548
DOI: 10.5012/jkcs.2014.58.6.560