Using Protein Folding Rates to Test Protein Folding Theories
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Using Protein Folding Rates to Test
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عنوان ژورنال: Annual Review of Biochemistry
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0066-4154,1545-4509
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biochem.73.011303.073904