New Approaches for the Study of Paramagnetic Metalloproteins

LUCIANO A. ABRIATA; MARÍA-EUGENIA ZABALLA; ALEJANDRO J. VILA

Advances in BioNMR Spectroscopy

IOS Press

Lugar: Amsterdam; Año: 2010;

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