Direct Measurement of Barrier Heights in Protein Folding
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Direct measurement of barrier heights in protein folding.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Chemical Society
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0002-7863,1520-5126
DOI: 10.1021/ja055996y